This week the inter-array cable loading onto Van Oord’s cable-laying vessel Nexus has commenced. The ultimate vacation spot is Iberdrola’s 476 MW Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm within the German a part of the Baltic Sea.
In whole, Van Oord will set up roughly 70 kilometres of 66kV inter-array cables, manufactured by subcontractor TKF. To guard the cables, Van Oord will deploy its trencher Dig-It later this 12 months to bury them. This Tracked Remotely Operated Car (TROV) drives unmanned over the seabed and creates a trench for the cables by liquefying the seabed.
The inter-array cable set up is an element of a bigger scope for this mission. Van Oord is answerable for the transport and set up of the wind turbine foundations and the availability, transport and set up of the inter-array cables. Van Oord just lately accomplished the set up of all 50 monopiles for the Baltic Eagle mission, utilizing its heavy raise set up vessel Svanen. Van Oord now continues putting in transition items and begins cable set up.
To finish the foundations for the wind generators, Van Oord is presently putting in the transition items on the beforehand put in monopiles. The transition items had been transported from the manufacturing yard in Aviles to the Van Oord storage facility in Mukran, Germany. At Van Oord’s facility the ultimate preparations and gear is put in to allow the set up.
Luis Pérez Portela, Baltic Eagle Director at Iberdrola: ‘Very key milestones are being accomplished within the development website and we’re wanting ahead to finishing all set up work earlier than commissioning can start. I’d prefer to thank all distributors, suppliers, companions and workers for his or her dedication and perseverance which is permitting us to ship this vital mission.’
Henk Jan van Dijk, Venture Director at Van Oord: ‘The set up of the monopiles marks a key milestone within the development of the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm. The contours at the moment are seen. Now that the transition items are being put in and our cable-laying vessel is able to set up the inter-array cables, development is progressing nicely. A giant due to the devoted mission staff and all our companions driving this mission.’
Baltic Eagle OWF
The Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm is positioned 30 kilometres northeast of the German island of Rügen and covers a 40 sq. kilometre space. With a manufacturing capability of 476 MW, Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm will ship renewable power to 475,000 households whereas decreasing carbon dioxide emissions by roughly 800,000 tonnes yearly. It’s scheduled to be totally operational by the top of 2024.
