Cable supplier secured for 950 MW offshore wind project in UK

VolkerInfra has been appointed by Siemens to design, supply and install the onshore cables for the Moray East Wind Farm project, including the EHV infrastructure for the offshore transmission modules, in Scotland.

The wind farm, located in the North Sea, 22 km off the Aberdeenshire coast of Scotland, will use 100 units of the V164-9.5MW turbine. It is expected to produce enough power for 950,000 UK homes.

VolkerInfra has completed cable route development works, which included geotechnical surveys to finalise the route and the development of key design features to support applications for local and statutory authority planning consent permissions.

The Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Limited consortium is currently owned by EDPR (43.3%), Diamond Green Limited, which is partly owned by DGE (33.4%) and ENGIE (23.3%). The initial design work commenced in late 2017 and the main pre-construction works started in October 2018.

The installation is planned to take two years to complete and will see VolkerInfra working with cables at voltages of 400kV, 220kV and 33kV. The works also include three 220kV circuits and multiple 66kV connections for three offshore transformer modules, the offshore equivalent of a land based electricity substation. In addition, VolkerInfra will install, connect and pre-commission test, approximately 330,000m of 220kV onshore underground export cables, covering a route length of over 34km, as well as connecting two 400kV circuits between new and existing substations.