Tekmar Energy (Tekmar) has secured multiple contracts to supply its cable protection systems (CPS) for Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm and BorWin3 HVDC connector link.
Image: Tekmar to supply cable protection systems for Germany offshore wind farm. Photo courtesy of Tekmar Energy Limited.
The orders were placed by Van Oord. For the 252 MW Deutsche Bucht, owned by Northland Power, Tekmar will supply its CPS to protect the 35 inter-array cables planned on the project.
Tekmar is expected to deliver a customized CPS for the project to cater for all different cable sizes applied and respective interface to the monopile foundations.
The Deutsche Bucht project will include of 31 of 8MW MHI Vestas wind turbines (8.4MW power mode) and will be located in the German Bight, 95 kilometres northwest of the island of Borkum. The wind farm installation is expected to start in the middle of this year.
As part of the second contract, Tekmar will supply its export cable protection system for BorWin3 to protect the three export cables between the Hohe See offshore wind farm and BorWin gamma, the corresponding offshore converter platform of BorWin3.
BorWin3 is a 900MW DC grid connection system of the Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT. This link will convert three-phase electric power generated by offshore wind farms into direct current and transmit it 160 km back to shore.
Tekmar will also be supplying its systems to protect the 79 inter-array cables on the Hohe See offshore wind farm, as part of a separate contract.
Tekmar said: “These contracts mark our 61st and 62nd named projects working within offshore wind, taking the total systems supplied to well over 6,000 protecting over 20 GW of electrical infrastructure around the globe.
“They also mark the 5th and 6th project that we have worked on with Van Oord, from the first project together taking place back in 2011.”