Van Oord wins infield cable project
Dutch dredging and marine contractor Van Oord has been awarded a contract for the infield cabling and cable burial of the DanTysk offshore wind farm project 70km off Sylt, Germany.
The laying work will begin in the spring of 2013 and be completed around six months later.
The DanTysk wind farm is a joint venture between Vattenfall Europe Windkraft GmbH and Stadtwerke München. Vattenfall is responsible for the construction and operation of the wind farm. The 80 wind turbines (each Siemens 3.6 MW) have a total capacity of 288 MW and can generate electricity for up to 300,000 households.
The services agreed with Van Oord encompass design, delivery, laying, pull-in and burial of the cables to the 80 steel foundations. The cabling has a total length of 111km. The infield cabling connects the 80 wind turbines with the offshore transformer station.
Van Oord’s equipment is capable of carrying the entire cable length in four shipments from the fabrication yard of Parker Scanrope in Norway to the DanTysk site.
Van Oord has extensive experience in the construction of offshore wind farms and Vattenfall has previously successfully partnered with the company on the Alpha Ventus wind farm project.
