EnBW lays first submarine cable for He Dreiht offshore wind farm

Two installation vessels will have laid and buried a total of around 100 km of cable on the seabed of the North Sea by the summer. The cables will then be pulled into the foundations of the wind turbines and connected. Cable manufacturer JDR manufactured the 66-kV submarine cables in the UK.

The internal wind farm cabling will later be connected to the converter platform managed by the transmission system operator, TenneT, which is due to be installed at sea in the summer. This is where the generated electricity will be concentrated, converted from alternating current to direct current and brought ashore using two high-voltage DC export cables.

 

 

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