The contract was awarded by 50Hertz Offshore GmbH, a subsidiary of 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, a company which operates transmission grids in Germany. It covers the design, production and installation of power cable systems for offshore wind parks planned for the area west of Adlergrund in the German Baltic Sea and also includes options for grid connections worth approximately 250 million euros.
The West of Adlergrund connection projects will incorporate multiple high voltage submarine cable systems running between the planned offshore wind parks, to be located approximately 40 km north-east of the island of Ruegen, to the Lubmin substation in North East Germany and thereby also to the mainland electricity grid. Around 90 kilometres of the route will be undersea with another 3 kilometres on land.
The 220 kV HVAC 3-core extruded cables, which include a fibre optic cable system, will be manufactured in the Group’s production facilities in Pikkala, Finland, and Arco Felice in Naples, Italy. Marine cable laying will be conducted by the newly upgraded Cable Enterprise DP 2 ship which is specifically suited to offshore wind connections and highly complex installation solutions. Production and installation of the cables will begin in 2015.
“This new project is the fourteenth secured by the Group and further highlights not only the Group’s strategic role to support the realization of important development plans in the field of renewable wind power, but also the entire power transmission industry’s trust in Prysmian's capability and expertise as a provider of submarine and land cable systems” said Marcello Del Brenna, CEO Prysmian PowerLink.
The company has been investing in offshore wind since the very earliest stages of its formation and is particularly focused on the demand for submarine cables serving offshore wind farms. In Germany the company is already involved with connections to shore from the BorWin2, Helwin1, HelWin2, Sylwin1, DolWin3 and BorWin3 mega wind farm clusters in the North Sea.
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