Aberdeen-based Hydro Group has been awarded £1million in financial support from the European Commission’s Research Executive Agency (REA).

The company predicts a 20% increase in turnover in the next five years as a result winning this funding.

The funding, which has been granted under the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), will support the research, development and production of a new 33kV hybrid wet-mate subsea connector for the offshore renewable energy industry.

Hydro Group managing director Doug Whyte said: “As subsea technology has evolved connections are made at much greater depths under significant hydrostatic pressure. They are expected to engage and disengage underwater and to operate reliably but currently they are restricted to a maximum power rating of 11kV.

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