Prysmian Group has been awarded a contract to design, produce and install the power cable systems for the West of Adlergrund offshore wind park cluster in the German Baltic Sea.
The order from 50Hertz Offshore GmbH, a subsidiary of German grid operator 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, is valued at up to € 730 million and includes options for grid connections worth €250M.
The West of Adlergrund connection projects will involve multiple cabling projects to link planned offshore wind parks, 40km north-east of the island of Ruegen, to the Lubmin substation in North East Germany, via a 90km submarine and 3km land route.
Prysmian says that production of installation of the cable systems will being in 2015.
It will manufacture the 220 kV HVAC 3-core extruded cables at its sites in Pikkala, Finland and Arco Felice, Italy. Marine cable laying will be performed using the newly-upgraded Cable Enterprise DP 2 ship.
"This new project is the fourteenth secured by the group and further highlights not only the group’s strategic role to support the realisation 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," commented Marcello Del Brenna, CEO Prysmian Powerlink.
Photo: Offshore wind farm. Courtesy Prysmian
