Prysmian Successfully Completes Wikinger Offshore Wind Farm Submarine Cable Project
Tuesday 25 September 2018
Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, announced the successful commissioning of the inter-array cable system for the Wikinger offshore wind farm, located within the West of Adlergrund cluster in the German Baltic Sea.
Prysmian secured this project in February 2015 with a contract awarded by Iberdrola, the world-leading renewable energy developer and operator.
The cables were produced at the Prysmian facility in Drammen, Norway, one of the Group’s three excellence centres for submarine cable production (in addition to plants in Italy and Finland), and the complex offshore installation has been performed under a full and dedicated Prysmian project management.
Over the past few years, Prysmian has moved ahead with major investments, introducing new and upgraded assets, with multiple state-of-the-art cable laying vessels and a full range of cable protection equipment, broadening the range of offered products and services — including a fresh approach to repair and maintenance cable asset management services — and fundamentally strengthening its capabilities in order to face the challenges of the offshore wind market, in addition to providing comprehensive packages to its customers with an EPCI approach.
Prysmian is particularly active in Northern Europe, namely in the entire Northern Sea region. The Group can call on full expertise in offshore wind farm connections and interconnectors and an extended ability to offer turnkey products and services (including design, manufacture and installation) to better serve offshore wind growing markets where Prysmian Group has already acquired and completed several projects such as Hornsea 2, Borssele III & IV, Horns Rev 3, Merkur, BorWin2 & BorWin3, Helwin1 & Helwin2, SylWin1 and DolWin3.