The Van Oord – Hellenic cable consortium will install the first two cables to the Alpha platform this year.
The other two cables, for the Beta platform, will follow in 2021. The preparatory work has been completed in recent days.
The cable was pulled ashore with controlled drilling to the newly built transformer station on the Maasvlakte. From there, the cable with a total length of 42 kilometers to the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind area will be laid by the contractor combination Van Oord – Hellenic Cables.
For this purpose, Van Oord has specially developed the Deep Dig-It, a gigantic, remotely controlled underwater excavator (trencher).
The consortium will install and bury the sea cables that cross the entrance to Europe’s busiest freight port, the port of Rotterdam. The 1,400 MW high-voltage connection will be completed in 2022 and the wind farms will provide enough electricity for the annual consumption of 1.6 million households.