Prysmian Group wins approx EUR 730 wind power cable contract

Prysmian Group, a provider in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a contract worth approximately EUR 730 to design, produce and install the power cable systems for an offshore wind park cluster West of Adlergrund in the German Baltic Sea.

The contract has been awarded by 50Hertz Offshore GmbH a subsidiary of 50Hertz Transmission, operator of transmission grids in Germany to design, supply and install multiple high voltage submarine cable systems between planned Offshore Wind Parks, approximately 40 km north-east of the island of Ruegen, to the Lubmin substation in North East Germany.

The 220 kV HVAC (High Voltage Alternate Current) 3-core extruded cables (including fibre optic cable system) will be produced in the Group’s centres of technological and manufacturing excellence for submarine cables in Pikkala (Finland) and Arco Felice (Naples, Italy).

The new project is the fourteenth secured by the Group and further highlights not only the Group’s strategic role to support the realization of important development plans in the field of renewable wind power, but also the entire power transmission industry’s trust in Prysmian’scapability and expertise as a provider of submarine and land cable systems, says Marcello Del Brenna, CEO Prysmian Powerlink.

Prysmian has been investing in this growing sector with the goal of continuing to anticipate the needs of the fast-developing renewable energy market and particularly its demand for submarine cables serving offshore wind farms, company officials said.

The company has special focus on Germany, with one of the largest renewable energy development program. Here the Group is already involved in connections to shore for the BorWin2, Helwin1, HelWin2, Sylwin1, DolWin3 and BorWin3 mega wind farm clusters in the North Sea, they said.

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