It’s going to be a busy fall, winter and spring for Ørsted and National Grid.
Two sections of undersea transmission cable they each own that experienced periodic episodes of exposure will be reburied by the time the summer season opens in 2021.
Beginning in October 2020, according to representatives from both companies, machinery and technology will start arriving on the island. It will be staffed by crews that, in order to be finished laying new cable at Crescent Beach before the 2021 summer season, may have to work day and night.
Cliff Pullen, project manager for Ørsted, and Dave Campilii, a consulting engineer for underground transmission engineering for National Grid, offered presentations to the members of the Town Council at its meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 12.
Both representatives said the project is complicated and will almost certainly be an expensive effort to keep both cables permanently below the bottom of the ocean. (Niether Ørsted, nor National Grid could divulge what the project may cost. The project will have to be put out to bid, and vendors will determine the cost. The representatives also said that Ørsted will pay
