Dong Energy has awarded a contract for the provision of cable installation and trenching work for its Race Bank offshore wind farm to DeepOcean.
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David Summers, DONG Energy’s Race Bank Engineering, Procurement and Construction Director said: “With the wind farm now into its construction phase, we are pleased to be able to call on experienced suppliers like DeepOcean for this important cable installation and trenching work.”
When operational, Race Bank will have a capacity of up to 580MW, providing enough green energy to power over 400,000 UK homes. The wind farm will consist of 91 wind turbines each with a 6 MW capacity and will be built almost 17 miles off Blakeney Point on the North Norfolk coast, England, and a similar distance from the Lincolnshire coast at Chapel St. Leonards.
DeepOcean has a long track record of subsea power cable installation on critical infrastructure projects. In addition to the installation and trenching of a total of 91 inter-array cables, with a combined length of 106km, the Race Bank contract scope includes the associated route engineering, pre-lay grapnel run operations, installation of cable protection system and messenger wires. The cables will be post-lay trenched by one of DeepOcean’s in-house trenching assets. ƶijϻ work will be undertaken in two campaigns, commencing in Q3 2016 and Q1 2017 respectively.