The wind
is blowing

The wind is blowing

Competitiveness of the now enlarged Prysmian Group in the Offshore Cables & Systems business has been confirmed by important contracts recently awarded, bringing the total value of offshore wind projects  secured in 2017-2018 to over €650 M.

The most recently woninclude: three turnkey projects to supply and install submarine inter-arraycable systems in France, worth an excess of €220 million; the development of submarine power cable links for the UK’s Hornsea Project Two – the world’s biggest offshore wind farm; a submarine inter-array cables system to be provided for the Borssele III & IV off shore wind farms project in the North Sea, and a contract awarded by Northwester NV for a submarine inter-array powercable system to NSW, a subsidiary of General Cable which is now part of Prysmian Group.

Milestone contract for offshore farms in France

Under three turnkey projects, Prysmian will supply and install  submarine inter-array cable systems for new cable connections,  within a contract worth over €220 M.

The awards, secured in France, represent an important milestone for Prysmian as they are related to the first major projects in this market and demonstrate that the Group’s ambition of becoming a one-stop service provider for the entire supply chain is credible and sustainable. Offshore wind projects for over €650 million in 2017-2018 have been secured, coming at a very important time for the Group.

The first two projects, awarded by the French-Canadian venture Eolien Maritime France, include the design, supply and installation of inter-array cables for the offshore wind farms of Fécampand Courseulles-sur-Mer, located off the North France coast, while a third project, for the Saint Nazaire Wind Farm (also owned by Eolien Maritime France),is in the process of being secured in a consortium between Prysmian and Louis Dreyfus TravOcean.

For these three projects, Prysmian will provide 33 kV three-core submarine cable systems with XLPE insulation with a total of around 345 km of cables. The Fécamp project will involve connecting 83 WTGs with a total capacity of 498 MW, while Courseulles-sur-Mer will connect 75 WTGs with a total capacity of 450 MW.  Cable, accessories and terminating services shall be provided by Prysmian for the 80 WTGs/480 MW capacity of Saint Nazaire.

The projects will lead to the construction of France’s first large-scale offshore wind farms. Prysmian will rely on the strategic and immediately available facilities of General Cable’s subsidiary NSW. Cable cores will be manufactured at the Group’s centre of excellence in Montereau-Fault-Yonne, France, and then assembled and finished in Nordenham, Germany.

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POWER LINK CABLE SOLUTIONS PRESENTED IN MANCHESTER

Global Offshore Wind 2018 brought together in the British city, manufacturers, project developers, financiers, port personnel, supply chain companies and technical experts to discuss the progress and opportunities of offshore wind. Prysmian Group chose this prestigious stage to present its Power Link Cable Solutions, our new enhanced asset management service for critical power links.

Linking the world’s  largest offshore farm

Prysmian hasbeen chosen to develop submarine power cable links for the UK’s Hornsea ProjectTwo, the world’s largest offshore wind farm.

A new contract from ØrstedWind Power A/S, to supply submarine inter-array cables for what will become theworld’s largest offshore wind farm, was secured by the Group. Hornsea Project Two, off the Yorkshire coast, will supply well over 1.3 million homes withgreen, renewable power once it becomes operational in 2022.

Prysmian Group will be responsible for the design, manufacture, supply, termination and testing of theinter-array submarine cables system that will connect 110 of the 165 wind turbines to the offshore substation platform. The project involves more than300 km of 66 kV inter-array cables with EPR insulation and single-wire armouring systems, plus all related accessories.

All the submarine cable cores will be produced at the Group’s centre of excellence in Wrexham, Wales,UK, while the armouring and assembling process will be performed in Drammen,Norway. The project is a clear display of confidence in the UK’s flourishing renewable sector, and will contribute to improving quality of life in the UK for generations to come.

Adding renewable energy in the Netherlands

Prysmian is to provide submarine inter-arraycable system for the Borssele III & IV offshore wind farms project in theNorth Sea, thus contributing to Dutch plans to abate greenhouse emissions.

By 2050, the Dutch central government wants to reduce the Netherlands' emissions of greenhouse gases to zero, and plans to make 16% of all energy used in the Netherlands sustainable by 2023. Prysmian Group will do its part to reach this important goal by providing sustainable and carbon-free electricity to more than 800,000 households in the Netherlands thanks to the development of a submarine inter-array cables system for the Borssele III & IV offshore wind farms project, committed by Van Oord Offshore Wind B.V.

Part of the wider Borssele Wind Farm Zone, located near the southern border of the Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Borssele III & IV will have a total installed capacity of 731.5 MW with individual wind turbine capacity of 9.54 MW. Prysmian will be responsible for the design, manufacture, supply and testing of about 175 km of 66 kV three-core cables with XLPE insulation of various cross-sections, and all related accessories. All cables, due to be delivered early 2020, will be produced in Prysmian’s centre of excellence in Pikkala, Finland.

Inter-array system in  the Belgian North Sea

NSW, a unit of General Cable – now part of PrysmianGroup – will develop a submarine inter-array power cable system for theNorthwester 2 Offshore Wind Farm, in the Belgian North Sea.

NSW will design, produce and deliver 25 km of 33 kV submarine power cables for the inter-array cabling of the Northwester 2, developed by wind farm operator Parkwind. NSW will also be responsible for pre-operation cable termination and testing. The submarine cables are scheduled for delivery in summer 2019. The Northwester 2 Offshore Wind Farm comprises 23 MHI Vestas Offshore Wind 164-9.5 MW turbines, which will generate 219 MW. Once completed in 2020, the wind farm will provide renewable energy to more than 220,000 homes.

NSW is one of the world’s leading companies in the field of submarine power and telecommunication cables. Headquartered in Nordenham, Germany, a strategic location close to the North Sea, NSW can leverage on enviable experience in: developing and producing repeaterless and repeater fibre-optic submarine cable systems and accessories for submarine networks; turnkey submarine power cable systems; repair and maintenance services, and offshore oil and energy systems for the offshore industry.

BRINGING SOLAR CHINESE POWER TO… ARGENTINA!

Prysmian has signed a contract with China’s Talesun/Shanghai Electric to provide 3,600 km of cable solutions and Pry-Cam systems for a major solar park in Cauchari, Argentina, the first project within the One Belt, One Road initiative.

The project begins in a 315 MW photovoltaic plant, located in the Jujuy Province at the North-West border with Chile, at an altitude of 4,100 m and in one of the areas with the greatest solar resource in the world. The solar park will be able to generate a monthly average of 55,073 MWh, which will be transmitted to the 345-kV line that links the Chilean town of Andes with that of Cobos in the province of Salta, offering the Argentinian system an annual average of 660,887 MWh for 20 years.

The Cauchari Solar Park is the first project officially signed by the governments of Argentina and China as part of the One Belt, One Road initiative. Prysmian Group will provide more than 3,600 km of instrumentation and control, medium voltage, low voltage and solar cables from its Chinese Tianjin and Yixing plants; more than 1,100 medium-voltage accessories and connectors from the Yixing plant alone; 100 Pry-Cam Grids and 1 Pry-Cam Portable from Prysmian Electronics, and supervision services for both MV accessories and Pry-Cam supplied by the team in Argentina.

HELPING TERNA TO UPGRADE THE ITALIAN POWER GRID

Terna is the majority owner of the Italian high voltage and very high voltage National Electricity Transmission Grid and one of the main European electricity transmission grid operators.

Prysmian’s solid and long-lasting collaboration with the Italian operator is becoming even stronger thanks to a framework contract for the supply, installation and emergency repairs of 220 kV cables to upgrade the national power grid.

Awarded to Prysmian as lead contractor in the Temporary Association of Companies (RTI) involving CEBAT S.r.l. and Elettrovit S.r.l., (which will carry out the civil engineering installation works, through its subsidiary Terna Rete Italia SpA), the turnkey project is worth about €50 million and will last for three years, with an option to extend in terms of time and value.

Prysmian Group is also building the High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) interconnection between France and Italy and the new submarine cable connection between Sorrento and the island of Capri.

CONNECTING THE CYCLADES

Prysmian Group has been awarded a new contract for the design, supply and installation of two turnkey HVAC cable systems to upgrade Greek islands’ power grids.

Once again, Prysmian Group has confirmed its commitment in developing the Mediterranean region’s power grids and, in particular, ‘deep water’ cable installation. The Independent Power Transmission Operator (ADMIE) awarded Prysmian a €21-million contract for two interconnections between the Cyclades islands of Evia, Andros and Tinos and mainland Greece.

Prysmian will design, supply and install two turnkey High Voltage Alternating Current (HVAC) cable systems – consisting of 150 kV three-core cables with XLPE insulation and double wire armouring – and the associated fibre optic cable system, which will transmit a power of 200 MVA, providing the four landfalls with robust, reliable and sustainable power transmission.

Delivery and commissioning are scheduled for Q3 2019. The system will cover a total route of over 18 km –16.5 km submarine and 2 km land – with maximum water depth expected to be in the range of 550 m in the link between the islands Evia and Andros. This new project follows the 2014 contract awarded by IPTO for the submarine interconnection between the island of Syros, also in the Cyclades, and the mainland power transmission system in Lavrion.

GAINING GROUND IN THE EXPANDING PHILIPPINES’ PETROCHEMICAL AND LNG BUSINESS

A new contract secured with the country’s largest and most diversified conglomerates for 820 km of cable solutions for plant and petrochemical applications.

The 250-hectare, fully-integrated world-class manufacturing complex of JG Summit Petrochemicals Group (JGSPG) is located 120 km south of Metro Manila in Batangas City. Overlooking the scenic Batangas Bay, it houses polymer plants and the first and only naphtha cracker plant in the Philippines.

Prysmian Group will support the first expansion phase to the existing facilities, providing a complete ‘Plant & Petrochemical Cables’ package of power, instrument and control, and telecommunication cables (approximately 820 km in total), for outside battery limits (OSBL).

JG Summit is a new and extremely important client for a market like the Philippines, an area with huge projected future growth on the petrochemical and LNG front. Cables are produced at Prysmian Group plants located in Tianjin and Suzhou, China.

JGSPG consists of JG Summit Petrochemical Corporation – the largest manufacturer of polyolefins in the Philippines, and the first and only integrated PE and PP resin manufacturer in the country – and JG Summit Olefins Corporation (JGSOC). Both are part of JG Summit Holdings Inc., one of the country’s largest conglomerates, with a wide range of businesses, from food, air transport, real estate and petrochemicals, to banking, publishing, power and telecoms.

New product to expand market reach

FlexRibbon™ is Prysmian’s new line of telecom products, featuring MassLink™ with FlexRibbon™ Technology. It’s able to reach 3,456 optical fibre to offer increased functionality to data centres operated by major companies worldwide.

Designed to maximise fibre density and duct-space utilisation, Prysmian’s MassLink™ with FlexRibbon™ Technology products compact the maximum fibre count into the smallest cable possible by using extremely flexible fibre ribbons that can be rolled up for high packing densities or laid flat for ribbon splicing.

“As the demand for more powerful, higher-density cables continues to increase, this latest offering will be a key asset for large companies to navigate underground duct networks.”

Philippe Vanhille, SVP Telecom Business of Prysmian Group