Prysmian Group, the energy and telecom cable systems company, secured a EUR 730M contract (including options for grid connections worth approx. EUR 250M) from 50Hertz Offshore – a subsidiary of 50Hertz Transmission, operator of transmission grids in Germany – to design, produce and install the power cable systems for the offshore wind park cluster West of Adlergrund in the German Baltic Sea.
The West of Adlergrund connection projects involve the design, supply and installation of multiple high-voltage submarine cable systems between planned Offshore Wind Parks, approximately 40km north-east of the island of Ruegen, to the Lubmin substation in North East Germany along a route of approximately 90km (submarine) and 3km (land).
The 220kV High Voltage Alternate Current (HVAC) 3-core extruded cables (including fibre optic cable system) will be produced in the Group’s centres of technological and manufacturing excellence for submarine cables in Pikkala (Finland) and Arco Felice (Naples, Italy). Marine cable laying will be performed using the newly upgraded Cable Enterprise DP 2 ship specifically geared to use her particular expertise in offshore wind farm connections in the best way to serve the growing markets in Northern Europe and to provide highly complex installation solutions. The production and installation of the West of Adlergrund cable systems will start in 2015.