DEME Group has laid the first export cable for Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, according to a recent Linked-In post.
DEME also reported that it had reached a milestone on the project by installing the 70th monopile foundation at the site off Virginia Beach in the US.
Dominion Energy had selected the consortium of DEME Group and Prysmian as the primary contractors for the transportation and installation of the foundations and the substations and the engineering, procurement, construction, and installation services for the inter-array and export cables for the project.
Under that agreement, DEME Offshore will oversee the complete offshore installation works for the foundations, substations, infield cables, and part of the export cables.
Prysmian Group will provide three 3-core 220 kV HVAC export cables measuring approximately 62 km each, with XLPE insulation and single-wire armoring, for a total of approximately 560 km.
According to DEME’s Linked-In post, the company successfully laid the first export cable using the company’s cable installation vessel the Living Stone.
DEME also installed 70 monopile foundations units using its vessel Orion which started the work in May this year from Portsmouth Marine Terminal, the staging site for the CVOW foundations.
