NKT wins EUR-42m cable deal for German-Danish wind link

Denmark's NKT Cables won a EUR-42-million (USD 44m) contract to supply and install the submarine cables for a 400-MW link between Germany and Denmark through offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea.

The company will be in charge of the manufacturing, delivery and installation of about 50 km of 150-kV AC high-voltage submarine cables. The contract comes from transmission system operators (TSOs) Energinet.dk in Denmark and 50Hertz Transmission in Germany, which own the Kriegers Flak – Combined Grid Solution (CGS) project.

NKT Cables said Thursday it will produce the cables in Cologne and bring them online by the end of 2018. In a separate statement, VBMS, a unit of Netherlands-based Royal Boskalis Westminster NV (AMS:BOKA), announced that it will be responsible for the cable installation in the second quarter of 2018, under a contract from NKT.

The Kriegers Flak CGS will use the national grid connections to the Baltic 1 & 2 offshore wind farms in German waters and Denmark’s 600-MW Kriegers Flak wind park. The 400-MW offshore interconnection project will secure transfer of power between the Danish island of Zealand and the state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania in Germany.

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