Prysmian secures two offshore wind farms in France

Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, have secured three important projects to provide new cable connections for offshore wind farms in France.

Eolien Maritime France (a joint venture between the French company EDF Energies Nouvelles and the Canadian company Enbridge) awards Prysmian with the design, supply and installation of inter array cables for the two offshore wind farms, Fécamp and Courseulles-sur-Mer owned by EMF and wpd offshore, located off the North France coast. The contracts worth over €200 million are expected to proceed in early autumn for these two prestigious wind farms.

Within these projects, Prysmian will provide 33 kV three–core submarine cable systems with XLPE insulation with a total for the three wind farms of around 345 km of cables.

Fécamp project will involve connecting 83 WTGs with a total capacity of 498 MW, and will use gravity-based foundations. Courseulles-sur-Mer will connect 75 WTGs with a total capacity of 450 MW. It is composed of 75 wind turbines, each with a capacity of 6 MW. It is developed on an area of 50 km2, some 10 km off the coast of Normandy and will employ monopole foundations. 

Prysmian will rely on the strategic and immediately available facilities of General Cable’s subsidiary NSW. Cable cores will be manufactured at the Group’s centre  of excellence in Montereau-fault-yonne, France, and then assembled and finished in Nordenham, Germany, providing the French market with Prysmian’s state-of-the-art cable systems manufactured locally.

On Fécamp and Courseulles-sur-Mer, Prysmian will be the turn – key solution provider and shall both supply and
install all inter-array cables between the WTGs, making available strategic installation assets and high value-added competence and know-how, whilst ensuring a tighter control over the entire supply chain. Delivery and commissioning of the cables are expected during the period 2020-2022, depending on the individual project timelines.

Eolien Maritime France and wpd offshore are waiting for the decision of the French Council of State about the appeal
against the projects authorizations to start construction.