Vattenfall Issues Two Array Cable Tenders for Three Danish OWFs

Swedish power company Vattenfall has launched a call for tenders to supply inter-array cables and installation works for three Danish offshore wind projects.

Vattenfall has been awarded the concession for the Danish offshore wind project Vesterhav Nord and Vesterhav Syd, Danish Kriegers Flak, led by the Danish Energy Agency.

The wind farms will consist out of monopile foundations including transition pieces connected by bolted flange connection, wind turbine generators of equal or more than 8 MW and inter-array cable with the following number of locations:

• Vesterhav Nord: up to 25 locations, located in the Danish coastal waters in the North Sea.
• Vesterhav Syd: up to 25 locations, located in the Danish coastal waters in the North Sea.
• Danish Kriegers Flak: up to 75 locations. Danish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Baltic Sea.

The contracts are planned to start in January 2019 and to be completed end-2021.

According to Vattenfall, the deadline for the submission of tenders is October 23, 2017.