Fugro to Install Cables for Rampion Wind Farm
Geotechnical, survey, subsea and geosciences services firm Fugro informs it has secured a contract for the installation and burial of array cables at the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm being built in the English Channel, 13 kilometers off the Sussex coast, by E.ON alongside partners, the UK Green Investment Bank plc.
The contract will see Fugro lay and bury the cables with its construction and installation vessels Fugro Symphony and Fugro Saltire using one of its two Q1400 trenching systems to bury the cables. The array cables will be pulled in and laid between the wind turbines and the offshore substation, where the power is then transmitted onshore.
Engineering and planning will commence immediately, with installation being carried out in two phases in 2016 and 2017.
The contract will see Fugro lay and bury the cables with its construction and installation vessels Fugro Symphony and Fugro Saltire using one of its two Q1400 trenching systems to bury the cables. The array cables will be pulled in and laid between the wind turbines and the offshore substation, where the power is then transmitted onshore.
Engineering and planning will commence immediately, with installation being carried out in two phases in 2016 and 2017.
“The award of this contract . . . comes soon after finishing cable-lay and burial on E.ON’s recently completed Humber Gateway Wind Farm,” noted Derek Cruickshank, Managing Director, Fugro Subsea Services Ltd.
The Rampion Offshore Wind Farm will consist of 116 turbines, each with a generating capacity of 3.45 MW. Construction is expected to be completed in 2018.