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DOING BUSINESS
Iberdrola
Renovables
Offshore
Deutschland GmbH , which is part of world-
leading wind farm developer and operator
Iberdrola, has awarded Prysmian Group
a new contract worth a total of around
€60 million to supply and install wind
turbine inter-array cables for the Wikinger
offshore wind farm, located within the
West of Adlergrund cluster in the German
Baltic Sea.
In May 2014, the Group announced a
contract with 50Hertz Offshore GmbH to
design, produce and install multiple 220 kV
high voltage AC
3-core extruded submarine
cable systems between planned offshore
wind parks within the West of Adlergrund
cluster. Under the contract, Prysmian is
responsible for the design, manufacture,
installation, burial, termination and testing
of total 81 km of 33 kV submarine cables in
different cross-sections to connect the 70
wind turbines and an offshore substation
that form the 350 MW wind farm. Cables
will be produced in Prysmian’s facility in
Drammen, Norway – one of the Group’s
excellence centres for submarine cables.
Installation works are scheduled to be
complete by the end of 2016. The new
project is a full inter-array turnkey supply
and installation contract.
Over the years Prysmian has moved
ahead with major investments in new and
upgraded assets, broadening the range of
offered products, services and capabilities
in order to be fully equipped to face the
many challenges coming from the offshore
wind power market in a timely manner.
The Group secures €60 million
from Iberdrola Germany for a
full offshore inter-array turnkey
supply in the Baltic Sea.
Prysmian can rely on three production
facilities dedicated to submarine cables,
situated
in
Arco
Felice
near
Naples,
Italy, Pikkala in Finland and Drammen
in Norway,. The Group also has two
installation vessels, Giulio Verne and Cable
Enterprise, that is close to leaving dock
after extensive upgrade works, well-proven
in-house cable protection equipment
and specialised operations teams. With
such an extended footprint, the Group is
able to serve the market as a trusted and
dedicated partner for the interconnection
of offshore wind parks to mainland grids
with a full range of products ranging
Extended industrial footprint
Working for the
wind world leader
from medium voltage inter-array cables,
to HVAC and HVDC export cables and
turnkey EPC installation services. Within
its portfolio, Prysmian already holds an
ever-increasing track record of offshore
wind power connections, with projects
either completed or ongoing in Denmark,
Holland and the UK, as well as the HVDC
connections to shore in Germany for the
BorWin2,
BorWin3,
HelWin1,
HelWin2,
DolWin3 and SylWin1 mega wind farm
hubs, forming part of the most important
programme for the development of
renewable energy in Europe.
