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€230 million
contract for
offshore wind
farm
Prysmian to design, produce
and install cable system for
the West of Adlergrund in the
German Baltic Sea.
A
new contract
to design, produce
and install a power cable system for
the ofshore wind park cluster West oF
Adlergrund in the German Baltic Sea was
awarded to Prysmian Group by 50Hertz
Ofshore GmbH, a subsidiary oF 50Hertz
Transmission
GmbH,
transmission
operator in Germany.
The project, worth approximately €230
million, comes as a result of 50Hertz
exercising an option for a further grid
connection already provided for in the
existing contract with Prysmian For the
West of Adlergrund project. This was
originally worth €480 million, efective
immediately, with options for further grid
connections to be activated separately.
The project scope now includes this
additional connection, between planned
Ofshore Wind Parks, approximately 40km
north-east oF the island oF Ruegen, to the
Lubmin substation in North East Germany
and then with the mainland electricity grid,
along a submarine route of approximately
90km, plus 3km on land.
The 220kV High Voltage Alternate
Current system, with 3-core extruded
cables, including a fbre optic cable
system,
will
be
produced
in
the
Group’s
centres
oF
technological
and
manuFacturing
excellence
For
submarine cables in Pikkala in Finland
and Arco ±elice in Naples, Italy.
Production oF the West oF Adlergrund cable
system has already started and installation
operations are beginning this year. Laying
will be perFormed by the DP2 ship ‘Cable
Enterprise’, which is speci±cally geared to
use her particular expertise in ofshore
wind farm connections.
