Orsted has conducted a cable pull in for the 1400MW Hornsea 2 offshore wind project at Lincolnshire’s Horseshoe Point beach on the east coast of England.
The operation saw 2.4km of a total 39km of cable being installed towards the landfall in preparation for the Danish developer’s largest offshore wind farm to date.
The project team at Horseshoe Point arranged for the cable laying vessel Ndurance, owned and operated by Netherlands-based contractor Boskalis, to position itself on location, 2.5km away from the cable’s connection point.
Once power has been generated by the wind turbines, it will travel via cable to the site’s offshore substation, on to its reactive compensation station and then to its onshore substation via the landfall location before reaching the National Grid ESO.
A total of 165 km of cable will be used to connect the site to its onshore substation which is further than the distance from Newcastle to Leeds.
Hornsea 2 will feature 165 8MW wind turbines, covering a distance of 462 square km.
Orsted programme director for Hornsea 2 Patrick Harnett said: “These recent months have set challenges in our way that no one could have expected. Our teams have worked safely and tirelessly to overcome these and deliver a fantastic result with the commencement of our offshore construction works.
“Thanks to the dedication of our contracted staff, once the cable connection works at Horseshoe Point have been completed next year, the ground will be reinstated and the beach will look exactly as it did before.”
Hornsea 2’s main construction site is located at Humberside Airport, where a disused building was repurposed for the project.
When the site becomes operational, technicians will be based at the East Coast Hub in Grimsby where over 80% of personnel live locally.