Nexans To Supply Power Export Cables for Seagreen Offshore Wind Project

Nexans has been awarded a contract by SSE Renewables to design, manufacture, and install the high voltage (HV) onshore and offshore export cables for the Phase 1 development of the Seagreen offshore wind farm project. 



Construction on the 1,075-MW project, which is located 27 km off the coast of Angus, will start next year. When completed in 2022/23, Seagreen 1 will be Scotland’s largest wind farm and single largest source of renewable energy.

Nexans’ factory in Charleston, US will supply the three 65 km offshore export cables. This factory was recently expanded to manufacture HV subsea power cables and is currently the only facility with that capability in North America. The three 20 km onshore export cables for the project will be manufactured at Nexans’ factory in Charleroi, Belgium.

Nexans is committed to working closely with suppliers local to the Seagreen project on subcontract opportunities available, including both the offshore and the land part of the contract.

The export cables for the Seagreen offshore wind farm project will be installed by the Aurora, Nexans’ brand new cable laying vessel (CLV). The Aurora is currently under construction and will be delivered in 2Q21.

The electricity generated by the Seagreen turbines will be transmitted via the subsea export cables to landfall at Carnoustie. Once ashore, the land cables will transmit the electricity to a new substation at Tealing where it will feed in to the UK’s national electricity transmission system.