RWE and Northland Power line up cable supplier for German North Sea wind project
Hot on the heels of Havfram Wind’s selection as a preferred supplier of wind turbine transport and installation support for the up to 1.6 GW Nordseecluster offshore wind cluster in the German North Sea, developers RWE and Northland Power have picked their cables maker.
Subject to final investment decisions Cenergy Holdings subsidiary Hellenic Cables should deliver approximately 185 km of 66kV aluminum and copper conductor cables to connect the 44 wind turbines with two offshore substations in Nordseecluster A and the 60 wind turbines of Nordseecluster B that will be directly routed into the transmission system operator’s converter.
The cables deployed for the Nordseecluster are expected to be manufactured at the Hellenic Cables factory in Greece. Offshore installation is expected to be delivered towards the end of 2025, with commercial operations starting in early 2027 for Nordseecluster A.
The delivery of cables for two further wind farms of Nordseecluster B is scheduled for late 2027 with commercial operation to start at the beginning of 2029. RWE and Northland Power plan to bid and to exercise their step-in rights in the German Government’s offshore wind auctions this year for both sites – as they did in 2021 for Nordseecluster A.
