Italian cabling giant Prysmian has been designated as the preferred bidder by German transmission system operator Amprion to secure contracts worth around €4.5bn ($4.91bn) for the BalWin1 and BalWin2 offshore grid connection systems in the German North Sea and the country’s underground cable project.
BalWin1 and BalWin2 will transmit each up to 2 GW of energy from the future offshore wind farms to be located in the German North Sea BalWin Cluster to the grid connection points in Wehrendorf and Westerkappeln. BalWin1 will utilise about 1,070 km of cables along a 358 km route, whereas BalWin2 will use about 1,100 km of cables over a route of 376 km.
The underground project, known as DC34 will connect the substation in the area of Lower Saxony to a second substation in Bürstadt to transmit up to 2 GW of energy produced by the offshore wind farms in the North Sea to consumers in the Rhine-Main metropolitan area.
The three projects are part of Germany’s overall plan to install 70 GW of offshore wind energy by 2045 and will support the transmission of the energy generated in the North Sea to consumers in the Western and Southern regions of the country.
The preferred bidder agreement will see the parties work towards final contracts and Prysmian has committed to reserve the required production and installation capacity until January 15, 2024.
Prysmian has been involved in key offshore wind farm projects in Germany like BorWin2, BorWin3, DolWin3, HelWin1, HelWin2, SylWin1 and Dolwin 5. In September last year, the company also won €800m deal for the DolWin4 and BorWin4 offshore wind farm grid connection systems
