wiredInUSA January 2020

Scottish wind farm

Green power supply

Image: Prysmian Group

Image: NKT

EDF Renewables has awarded a contract to Prysmian Group for the development of submarine and land power cable systems to connect the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm to the Scottish mainland power grid. The NnG offshore wind farm, located 15.5km off the Fife coast, will generate 450MW of energy. Prysmian will provide design, supply, installation and commissioning services for two HVAC 220kV three-core extruded export submarine cables with single- wire armoring, which will reach land at Thorntonloch beach in East Lothian, Scotland. Prysmian will also provide two 220kV extruded land cable circuits that will link the landfall area to the substation at Crystal Rig, and two 400kV extruded land cable circuits to link the Crystal Rig substation to Scottish Power’s substation. The project will cover a submarine cable route of 38km and an underground cables route of around 12km. Submarine cables will be produced in Pikkala (Finland) and installed in 2021. The land cables will be manufactured in Gron (France) and installed during 2020 and 2021.

NKT factories making low emission, high voltage power cable inCologne, Germany, and Karlskrona, Sweden, are now solely powered by renewable electricity. Alexander Kara, president and CEO of NKT, commented: “This step is a milestone in our ambition to reduce the carbon footprint of our power cable solutions, and I am pleased that both [of] our high voltage manufacturing sites now run on green power. The move enables us to minimize our environmental impact and offer high voltage power cable solutions with one of the lowest carbon footprints in the market.” The change in energy supply was made possible by entering an agreement with the local utility that the power supply originates solely from renewable energy. The move to green power in Cologne alone is said to reduce NKT’s companywide carbon footprint from electricity by 10 percent.

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wiredInUSA January 2020