Jan De Nul Group along with its consortium companions LS Cable & System and Denys has signed the contracts for 2 525 HVDC cable programs for the 2 grid connection programs BalWin4 and LanWin1. These mark the primary two contracts signed below the long-term framework settlement that TenneT and Jan De Nul have signed earlier this yr. The tasks comprise the design, manufacturing, transport, set up, safety and testing of three 525 kV cable programs for connecting offshore wind farms to the onshore grid through the BalWin4 and LanWin1 grid connections.
Jan De Nul will deal with the transport, set up, burial and safety of the offshore cables utilizing quite a lot of its specialised vessels and belongings together with the Fleeming Jenkin, the corporate’s lately ordered XL cable-laying vessel. LS Cable & System will design, manufacture, terminate and check all cables with Denys being chargeable for civil and cable pulling scope associated to the onshore cable routes. In whole, greater than 1,000 km of HVDC will probably be designed, manufactured, transported, put in, protected, and examined for these two tasks.
Wouter Vermeersch, Supervisor Offshore Cables at Jan De Nul Group, mentioned, “We’re delighted to signal these first two tasks below the partnership body settlement we signed earlier this yr with TenneT. This marks an vital milestone in assist of TenneT’s 2GWProgram and the development of the power transition. We stay up for offering supply excellence of those tasks throughout the difficult North Sea atmosphere along with TenneT and our companions.”
The cable programs of the 2 grid connections BalWin4 and LanWin1 coming from the offshore converter stations will cross the Wadden Sea and be linked to the extra-high voltage grid in Unterweser. The grid connections will allow renewable electrical energy from offshore wind farms with a transmission capability of altogether 4 GW to be fed into the German grid.
BalWin4 and LanWin1 are a part of the 2GW Program. With its transnational method and a brand new customary for offshore grid connection programs, the 2GW Program accelerates European offshore grid enlargement and secures power provide for Europe. Collectively, the overall of 14 offshore grid connections within the 2GW program will provide as much as 35 million households with inexperienced wind power.
XL cable-laying vessel Fleeming Jenkin will deal with transport and offshore set up.
XL cable-laying vessel Fleeming Jenkin, an Extremely Low Emission vessel (ULEv) with unrivalled carrying capability of as much as 28,000 tonnes, will transport and set up the 525kV HVDC offshore cables. The 2 energy core cables along with the metallic return cable in addition to a fiber optic cable will probably be put in concurrently utilizing the three carousels and fiber optic tank onboard the Fleeming Jenkin.
Other than the ULEv know-how, the ship is supplied with hybrid engines that may run on each biofuel and inexperienced methanol. This considerably reduces CO2 emissions. The two.5 MWh battery and drive know-how optimizes power use on board. Fleeming Jenkin will meet the strictest requirements on emissions, such because the European Stage V and EURO VI emission requirements.
