Typhoon season in East Asia: Protecting subsea cables with real-time monitoring.
Each year, between summer and early autumn, East Asia faces an intense typhoon season. Known as hurricanes or cyclones in other parts of the world, these powerful storms bring extreme winds, heavy rainfall, and significant wave action, all of which can severely impact offshore infrastructure.
For offshore wind farms, typhoons represent a dual threat. Wind turbines must be safely shut down to prevent structural damage, but what often goes unseen is the effect of powerful waves and shifting seabed conditions on subsea power cables. Cable movement, exposure, or damage during storms can compromise energy export, lead to costly outages, and result in complex, time-consuming repairs.
That’s why continuous cable monitoring is critical. Using Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) or Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), operators can detect cable movement, exposure, thermal hotspots, or impact events in real time, even during extreme weather. This early insights enables rapid response, limits downtime, and protects the long-term reliability of transmission assets.
Marlinks enable operators and O&M teams to stay ahead of damage, protect production, and reduce risk to their most expensive asset: the export cable.
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