The consortium of Hellenic Cables has been selected by RWE, along with Jan de NUL, for delivering the complete package for the submarine and onshore export cable system for Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm, Thor. Cable production will be phased through 2023 to 2025 according to the project’s delivery plan.
Apr 25, 2023
The consortium of Hellenic Cables and Jan de Nul have been selected by RWE to deliver the complete package for the submarine and onshore export cable system along with the inter-array cable system for Thor, Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm. With a planned capacity of more than 1,000 megawatts, Thor will be built in the Danish North Sea, approximately 22 km from Thorsminde on the west coast of Jutland.Thor is expected to start operating towards the end of 2027 and should be capable of producing enough green electricity to supply the equivalent of more than one million Danish households.
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The turnkey project for the Thor offshore wind farm includes the design, manufacturing, supply, transportation, installation, jointing, termination, and testing of the 275 kV HVAC export cable system and the 66 kV inter-array cable system, to be produced at Hellenic Cables’ vertically integrated, state-of-the-art submarine cables plant in Corinth, Greece. The export cable system consists of two 30 km offshore cables, onshore cables with a total length of approximately 26 km, and related accessories. The inter-array cable system consists of approximately 200 km of submarine cables and associated accessories. Cable production will be phased through 2023 to 2025 according to the project’s delivery plan.
