Jan De Nul and Hellenic Cables team up for Danish wind farm cabling contract
Belgian marine contractor Jan De Nul and Greece’s Hellenic Cables have been awarded by German utility RWE the turnkey delivery of both the export cable as well as inter-array cable systems for the Thor offshore wind farm project in Denmark.
The turnkey contract includes two export cables, each with an onshore length of 13 km and an offshore length of 30 km, as well as 200 km of inter-array cables to connect the 72 different wind turbines. Hellenic Cables will design and manufacture all cables after which Jan De Nul will deploy its cable-laying vessel Connector for the transport and installation works.
for the transport and installation works.With a planned capacity of more than 1 GW, Thor wind farm will be built in the Danish North Sea, approximately 22 km from Thorsminde on the west coast of Jutland. Once fully operational, which is planned no later than end of 2027, the wind farm should be capable of producing enough green electricity to supply the equivalent of more than 1m Danish households.
Readers may like to go through this Vedic astrology writer’s predictive article on Denmark published at medium.com/@kushal1948 on 28 July 2022, covering this writer’s predictions for Denmark. These include wind farm project prediction during mid-March to June end 2023, which has come accurate.