Prysmian Group has been awarded a project worth in excess of € 250 million by the Dutch-German grid operator TenneT for the grid connection of offshore wind farms in Germany.
The project involves supply, installation and commissioning of a High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) 320 kV extruded submarine and land power bipole connection with a rating of 900MW and associated fibre optic cable system, comprising of a 29 kilomtres land route and of a subsea route of 130 kilometres. The power link will run from the land based converter station at substation Emden Ost in Lower Saxony to the converter platform BorWin gamma in the BorWin cluster, located approximately 120 kilometres North of Germany. Coordination of the ‘BorWin3’ project execution will be from Prysmian offices in Hamburg, using production centres in Pikkala (Finland) and Gron (France). Marine cable laying will be performed using the newly upgraded Cable Enterprise DP 2 ship. Completion of the HVDC system installation is scheduled by October 2017.
