Asso.subsea has accomplished the inter-array cable set up and safety operations for the five hundred MW Fécamp wind farm offshore Normandy, France.
Asso.subsea was contracted by Italy-headquartered Prysmian Group to execute the seabed preparation, set up, and safety works, involving 4 completely different vessels and numerous subsea instruments.
In response to the corporate, the challenge was characterised by very laborious soils and demanding burial necessities, so it designed and constructed a brand new trenching automobile, the AssoTrencher IV Mk13 with an revolutionary strategy to boost backfilling capabilities.
The instrument carried out greater than 100 kilometres of backfilling re-utilising the beforehand excavated materials, thus offering a extra distinctive environmentally sustainable answer for seabed reinstatement operations, mentioned Asso.subsea.
The agency additionally utilised its just lately transformed cable-laying vessel (CLV) Ariadne and the trenching help vessels Athena and Argo, each geared up with the newest model of the AssoTrencher IV burial instruments.
“This essential challenge marks a big milestone for Asso.subsea, being the primary inter-array challenge that the corporate has ever executed,” mentioned Dimitris Panagos, Director of Offshore Wind Initiatives at Asso.subsea.
“As a one–stop-shop service supplier for offshore actions, we’ve got efficiently put in and guarded a complete of 71 cables, being liable for loading, transportation, set up, safety and backfilling of greater than 118km of submarine cables, providing our experience and prolonged capacity to execute an especially complicated challenge, due to a full vertically-integrated answer.”
Except for being liable for the availability of inter-array and export cables for the Fécamp offshore wind farm, Prysmian Group can be in command of offering inspection, upkeep, and restore providers for the export cables connecting Saint-Nazaire, Fécamp, and Calvados offshore wind farms to land.
The Fécamp offshore wind farm will characteristic 71 Siemens Gamesa SWT-7.0-154 wind generators with the primary unit being put in in July this yr. That very same month, the five hundred MW offshore wind farm began producing its first energy.
The challenge is being collectively developed by Eolien Maritime France (EMF), a three way partnership between the French firm EDF Renouvelables; EIH S.à.rl, owned by Enbridge Inc. and CPP Investments; and Skyborn Renewables (previously wpd offshore).
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