Nexans Inks Ørsted Hornsea 2 Deal

Nexans has won a contract worth over €150 million to supply over 200 kilometers of 245 kV high voltage alternating current (HVAC) subsea export cable system for the near-shore section of Ørsted’s Hornsea 2 wind farm. 

From Left to right : Luke Bridgman, Deputy EPC director, Patrick Harnett, Ørsted Senior project director Hornsea 2, Duncan Clark, Ørsted Program director Hornsea 2, Vincent Dessale, Nexans Nexans Senior Executive VP Subsea and Land Systems Business Group

Located in the North Sea, approximately 89 kilometers from the Yorkshire coast, the 1.4 GW offshore wind farm will be the world’s largest once it starts operating.

The wind farm, which is the sister project to Hornsea 1, should provide enough electricity to power over 1.3 million homes. Ørsted is now constructing the project, with completion set for 2022.

To bring the electricity produced by the wind farm onshore, the project will be equipped with Nexans three-core HVAC submarine cables. These 245 kV XLPE cables will be part of the near shore section of the export circuits linking the wind farm’s reactive power substation to the onshore substation.

The circuits will comprise three individual near shore export cables and will follow a similar route to Hornsea 1, for which Nexans Norway has earlier supplied 139 kilometers of three-phase 36 kV subsea cable inter-linking a total of 58 wind turbines and connecting them to the offshore transformer station. The route will make landfall at Horseshoe Point from where land cables will feed the power to North Killingholme onshore substation.

“For the last decades, Nexans has been a key actor in the offshore wind market, known for its technical leadership in providing turnkey cabling solutions for new generations of offshore wind farms. Building on our expertise and long-standing partnership with Ørsted, we are delighted to contribute to the construction of the world’s largest offshore wind farm,” said Vincent Dessale senior executive VP Subsea and Land Systems Business Group at Nexans.