Offshore staff
PARIS – Ocean Winds has awarded Nexans a turnkey contract to design, manufacture, install, and protect the 220-kV subsea and onshore export cable system for the Moray West wind farm offshore northeast Scotland.
The cable system consists of high voltage alternating current cabling which will connect the wind turbines to two offshore substation platforms (OSP). The 220-kV cabling, including 170 km (106 mi) of land cables and 100 km (62 mi) of subsea cables, will be installed from each OSP along the full route to the project specific onshore substation.
The export cabling solution will connect the project’s substation to the national grid electricity transmission system at Blackhillock, Keith.
The cables will be manufactured at the company’s plants in Halden and Rognan, Norway, Charleston, South Carolina, and Charleroi, Belgium, and installed by the cable laying vessel Nexans Skagerrak. The onshore part of the project will be overseen and delivered by the company’s personnel based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The 860-MW Moray West project is fully consented. Construction is expected to start in 2022 and be completed in 2024.
12/21/2021
