Tideway BV has been awarded a Design and Build cable installation contract by DONG Energy for the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm.
For the project, Tideway, a subsidiary of DEME, will deploy the new DP3 cable-laying vessel Living Stone, which is currently being built by the Spanish shipyard LaNaval and is scheduled to be delivered in April 2017.
The installation scope of work for Tideway includes cable-laying, pre-trenching, backfilling, pre-sweeping, route preparation and rock placement of three high voltage subsea power cables from the shore to three different offshore substation platforms, as well as the installation of two interlink cables.
The power cables will be pulled ashore near Horseshoe Point immediately south of the Humber Estuary.
Due to the extreme length of the three subsea power cables (134 km, 140 km and 152 km), DONG Energy has to install a reactive compensation platform between the three substations and the shore. The interlink cables are 13 km and 14 km.
The offshore project execution will start in 2017 with the engineering route survey and the last export cable will be laid and protected mid 2019.
DONG Energy will build the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm, capable of powering well over 1 million UK homes, off the Yorkshire Coast in the UK. Covering approximately 407 square kilometres and providing a capacity of 1.2 gigawatts (GW), Hornsea Project One will be the first offshore wind farm to exceed 1 GW in capacity and will become the world’s largest offshore wind farm.