Prysmian completes inter-array cable machine offshore France

Prysmian has commissioned the inter-array cable machine for the Fécamp offshore wind farm located in the English Channel, some 24 kilometers off the French cruise, in Normandy.

The Fécamp offshore wind farm is created from 71 Siemens Gamesa SWT-7.0-154 wind mills with a total capacity of objective about 500 MW, producing trim electrical energy an identical to the vitality wants of over 770,000 of us.

Prysmian had secured this project in 2020 with a contract awarded by EDF Renewables and its companions.

”This crucial project marks a additional basic milestone for the Community, being one of many first gargantuan-scale offshore wind farms located in France, in which the Community has full EPCI accountability for the inter-array provide and installation contract,” said Alberto BoffelliChief Running Officer Initiatives BU, Prysmian Community.

”As a one-close-shop provider provider, Prysmian was to blame for the invent, carry out, installation, burial, termination and attempting out of a total of 118 km of 33 kV submarine cables with 630mm2 corrupt-sections and both aluminium and copper cores to join the 71 wind mills with a capacity of 7 MW every to the offshore substation. Prysmian also equipped its strategic abilities and extended capacity to present a posh and total installation solution, whereas guaranteeing a tighter adjust over the total provide chain.”

The offshore installation was carried out below Prysmian’s full and dedicated project administration.

EDF Renewables and its companions have awarded Prysmian assorted initiatives a lot like those for the Saint-Nazaire and Calvados offshore wind farms in France.

Fécamp is being jointly developed by Eolien Maritime France (EMF), a joint project between the French company EDF Renouvelables; EIH S.à.rl, owned by Enbridge Inc. and CPP Investments; and Skyborn Renewables (formerly wpd offshore).

The principle wind turbine was effect inon the positioning in July this 300 and sixty five days. That same month, the five hundred MW offshore wind farmstarted producingits first vitality.