Prysmian Group has been awarded a contract by Iberdrola Renovables Offshore Deutschland GmbH worth a total of around € 60 million to supply and install wind turbine inter array cables for the Wikinger offshore wind farm, located within the West of Adlergrund cluster in the German Baltic Sea.
Under the contract, Prysmian is responsible for the design, manufacture, installation, burial, termination and testing of total 81 kilometres of 33 kV submarine cables in different cross-sections to connect the 70 wind turbines and an offshore substation that form the 350MW wind farm. Cables will be produced in Prysmian’s facility in Drammen, Norway. Installation works are scheduled to be complete by the end of 2016.