Belgium-based offshore set up contractor Jan De Nul has signed the export cable contract with Ørsted for its 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm within the U.Ok.
Jan De Nul will likely be accountable for the seabed preparation, transport, set up and safety of 350 km of DC export cables connecting the wind farm to the U.Ok. electrical energy grid.
For the set up and safety of the DC export cables, the corporate goes to deploy a number of vessels.
Cable-laying vessels Isaac Newton and Connector will transport and set up the cables, and to guard the cables a wide range of burial options will likely be used together with the rock-installation vessel Simon Stevin which is able to set up as much as 150,000 tonnes of rock to guard the cables.
The works will begin in 2025 and are anticipated to be accomplished early 2027.
The Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm is positioned 160 km off the Yorkshire coast. With its 2.9 GW capability, this wind farm will develop into the biggest particular person offshore wind farm up to now and can convey the full capability of the Hornsea offshore wind zone to five.4 GW – making the event the world’s largest.
The offshore wind farm is predicted to generate sufficient renewable electrical energy to energy the houses of three.3 million British households.
“We are proud to support Ørsted in building the world’s largest individual offshore wind farm by connecting 2.9 GW of renewable energy capacity to the UK’s national grid. Thanks to our collaboration with Ørsted, which includes recent projects such as the monopile installations for Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 in Germany, we keep on constructing the energy transition together,” stated Wouter Vermeersch, supervisor offshore cables at Jan De Nul Group.
The closing funding determination for the Hornsea 3 challenge, anticipated to value $10.3-$11 billion (DKK 70-75 billion), was made in December 2023.
