Nexans is to supply cabling for the nearshore section of the export cable for Orsted’s 1400MW Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm off the east coast of England.
The over €150m deal, first reported in the subscriber-only newsletter reNEWS, covers the delivery of over 200km of 245kV cross-linked polyethylene insulated high voltage wires.
The cables, which will be manufactured at Nexans’ Halden facility in Norway, will be part of the export circuits linking the wind farm’s reactive substation to the onshore substation.
Links will comprise three nearshore wires making landfall at Horseshoe Point in Lincolnshire from where onshore cables will connect with the onshore substation at North Killingholme.
Nexans senior executive vice president of the subsea and land systems business group Vincent Dessale said: “For the last decades, Nexans has been a key actor in the offshore wind market, known for its technical leadership in providing turnkey cabling solutions for new generations of offshore wind farms.
“Building on our expertise and long-standing partnership with Orsted, we are delighted to contribute to the construction of the world’s largest offshore wind farm.”