Irish contractor Mainline has signed a €10m contract to provide power and communication infrastructure to a 137 turbine wind farm project in northern Sweden.
Cork-based Mainline will install more than 350 km of medium voltage power and fibre optic cabling for the wind project in the Markbygden Cluster.
Mainline chief executive Jamie O’Rourke (pictured) said Mainline will complete the work in less than 18 months, in challenging, and near Arctic conditions for large parts of the year.
He said: “We have just completed a smaller wind farm project inside the Arctic circle in Sweden, and this latest contract is our second significant project win in Sweden.
“Our ability to adapt our proven processes to Swedish requirements has been key to winning these projects in a very competitive commercial environment with local and international players in the market.
“Our construction, procurement and design teams in Mainline have proven themselves to be able to compete with the best, and lessons learned in Sweden can be applied to major power infrastructural projects in the future back here in Ireland.”
Mainline is in the final stages of completing work on Hastkullen, in the Nysater wind park in northern Sweden.
The project’s scope includes installing over 95 km of 36kV collector cable to 73 wind turbines, and all associated civil works over rugged mountainous terrain, using more than 450 linear km of cable.