Atlantis and JDR Cable in new subsea collaboration

Tidal power giant Atlantis Resources and Edinburgh-based JDR Cable Solutions will enter a five-year collaboration at the end of this month to develop solutions for storage, installation, monitoring and testing of offshore subsea cables.

The tie-up could see the creation of a subsea cable research facility in Scotland. Picture: Atlantis Resources

The two companies also said that they would explore opportunities to set up a subsea cable R&D facility in Scotland, “to service and advance the Atlantis portfolio of tidal power projects”.

Atlantis said: “This collaboration underlines Scotland’s role at the forefront of developing tidal power projects with the emergence of a regional centre of excellence around the Atlantis projects and its intended operations and maintenance facility currently being established at Nigg Energy Park in Invergordon.”

The collaboration builds on a partnership between the two firms on Atlantis’s flagship MeyGen project in the Pentland Firth. David Currie, chief executive of JDR, said he was “delighted” at the extension of the co-operation between the two.