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Prysmian Group Insight
BorWin3 secured, worth more than €250M
DOING BUSINESS
Boost to growth from major projects
Thanks to new contracts worth a total of more than
€
300 million, the Group has
strengthened its leadership in the high value-added submarine cables market.
Prysmian Group becomes a strategic partner for Renewables in Germany while
strengthening its market share in Abu Dhabi and Denmark. There has been a major
achievement in Asia too, with the completion of the Vietnamese connection.
Prysmian Group has been
awarded a
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 the supply, installation
and commissioning of a High
Voltage Direct Current (HVDC)
320kV extruded submarine
and land power bipole
connection, with a rating of
900MW and associated fibre
optic cable system, comprising
of a 29km land route and of a
subsea route of 130km.
The power link will run from the
land-based converter station at
Emden Ost in Lower Saxony to
the converter platform BorWin
gamma in the BorWin cluster,
located approximately 120km
north of Germany. Coordination of
the project execution will be from
Prysmian offices in Hamburg, using
production from the Group’s centres
of technological and manufacturing
excellence in Pikkala (Finland) and
Gron (France).
Marine cable laying will be carried
out using the newly upgraded
Cable Enterprise DP2 ship. It is
specifically geared to maximise its
particular expertise in offshore wind
farm connections in the North Sea,
meaning the Group can better serve
the growing markets in Northern
Europe, providing highly complex
installation solutions.
Completion of the HVDC system
installation is scheduled for October
2017. Cables will be installed
through environmentally significant
natural areas, both on land and at
sea, including the Ems estuary. This
is the second grid connection project
awarded by TenneT to follow this
route, running directly parallel to
the DolWin3 project the Group was
awarded last year. The project is the
seventh offshore project awarded by
TenneT to Prysmian in recent years.
Prysmian is providing complete
cable systems for projects in all four
of the clusters designated by TenneT
in the North Sea.
