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NKT Secures Order for Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farms Creyke Beck A/B in the UK
NKT has agreed on an EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation) contract with project owners Equinor and SSE Renewables as the main contractor for delivery and installation of high-voltage DC on- and offshore export cable systems to the Dogger Bank Wind Farms Creyke Beck A and Creyke Beck B site.
As previously announced, the order represents a contract value of approx. EUR 360m in market prices, equivalent to approx. EUR 300m in standard metal prices. The cable systems comprise the manufacture of approx. 4x175 km of 320 kV DC offshore export power cables and approx. 4x32 km of 320 kV DC onshore export power cables as well as installation by the cable-laying vessel NKT Victoria. NKT expects production-start of the power cables in 2020.
The Dogger Bank Creyke Beck A/B offshore wind farms will provide green energy supply to an estimated 3 million households in the UK.
- Source:
- NKT
- Author:
- Windfair Staff
- Email:
- press@windfair.net
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- NKT, cable, Dogger Bank, UK, offshore, wind farm, Creyke A/B, Equinor, SSE Renewables, export, power cable, contract