You’ll be able to’t have offshore wind energy with out export cables, and cable maker Nexans simply landed a €1.7 billion contract to ship 2,160 km (1,342 miles) of subsea and land cables.

The Paris-based firm shall be working with TenneT, which is the transmission system operator for the Netherlands and a big a part of Germany. Nexans has already provided 320 kV direct present (DC) cables for TenneT’s DolWin 6 challenge, and it was awarded the BorWin 6 challenge in 2022.

Nexans goes to fabricate and set up high-voltage direct present (HVDC) cables to attach three grid connection tasks – BalWin 3, LanWin 4, and LanWin 2 – to attach future offshore wind farms within the German North Sea that may present a large 6 gigawatts (GW) of vitality. The subsea cable firm says that main subcontracted works shall be included as soon as the project-specific call-offs are signed. 

Final yr, Nexans efficiently developed and examined its first 525 kV DC cable that it says permits a “substantial enhance” in transmission capability. The TenneT tasks shall be first wherein the brand new, higher-capacity offshore cable know-how shall be deployed. Nexans goes to make them at its flagship manufacturing facility in Halden, Norway.

The entire challenge is predicted to be totally operational by 2031.

Referring to the vitality disaster attributable to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Vincent Dessale, chief working officer and senior government vp of Nexans, mentioned of the settlement:

The uncertainty of the vitality provide has once more underlined the necessity to spend money on offshore grids all through Europe. This could solely occur by creating robust and long-term partnerships between suppliers and transmission system operators – primarily based on belief, transparency, and joint technological developments.

Within the US, Nexans is offering subsea cable for the Southfork Wind, Revolution Wind, and Empire Wind offshore tasks.

Learn extra: The whole lot you didn’t know it is best to find out about subsea export cables

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