Prysmian Group has won a €16m contract for power transmission and distribution cabling for the 230MW Niagara onshore wind farm in North America.
The contract was awarded by NCS International for medium voltage power and fibre optic cables and Eptcon for the HV cables.
Prysmian will supply 25km of 138kV underground cable with aluminum conductor and XLPE insulation and 650km of 35kV MV power cables to interconnect the wind farm to Hydro One Networks.
It will also supply the HV outdoor terminations and Click Fit jointing systems along with direct burial fibre optic cable.
The medium voltage and high voltage cables will be supplied from Prysmian Group factories in Prescott, Ontario in Canada and Abbeville, South Carolina in the USA. The fibre optics will be supplied from Claremont in North Carolina.
The wind farm will consist of 77 3.0 MW turbines, grouped into 10 collector circuits that bring power to substations via 34.5 kV underground cable.
The fibre optic cable will be used to collect and transmit critical wind condition information from each turbine.
Prysmian vice president, energy & infrastructure, North America Scott Roberts said: “The project has very tight timeline requirements for supply and by utilizing the capacity provided by completion of the second VCV line at the Abbeville, SC plant, we are uniquely positioned to meet project demands.”
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Prysmian grabs Niagara gig
Group secures €16m contract for transmission and distribution cables
By EBS