PARIS —Nexans has executed a contract for Phase 1 of the Empire Wind Project being developed by a 50:50 partnership between Equinor and bp.
This signature follows the preferred supplier agreement signed in March 2021, which prompted several months of collaborative work to negotiate a turnkey contract, covering the design and manufacturing as well as the laying and protection of export cables for the project.
The Empire Wind lease area for Phase 1 of the overall 2.1-GW project is located about 20 miles (33 km) south of Long Island and east of the Rockaways. Nexans will install the export cables over 93 miles (150 km) from the offshore substation for Empire Wind 1 to landfall at South Brooklyn Marine Terminal.
The Empire Wind 1 project, when completed, will deliver electricity to more than 500,000 homes of the eventual over 1 million homes that will be powered by the entire Empire Wind project, Nexans said.
