General – Grid Connection
Jan De Nul has concluded the 2025 transport and installation campaign of three HVAC grid connection cables at TenneT’s DolWin kappa platform.
When finalised, these cables will ensure the transport of almost 660 MW renewable electricity from two offshore wind farms. This equals the energy needed to power 800,000 German homes.
Jan De Nul and partner Hellenic Cables are responsible for designing, producing, transporting, installing, and protecting three 155 kV HVAC cables with a total length of 37 km. These cables establish a stable connection from the offshore wind farms Nordseecluster 1 and 2 to the offshore converter station DolWin kappa.
Cable-laying vessel Isaac Newton transported the three 155 kV cables from Hellenic Cables’ vertically integrated submarine cable plant in Corinth, Greece. She installed them between the TenneT offshore convertor station DolWin kappa and the two offshore wind farm locations of Nordseecluster 1 and 2. At crossings with other subsea infrastructures, the vessel installed concrete mattresses. The multi-purpose vessel Adhémar de Saint-Venant buried the cables along the entire cable routes using her trencher UTV1200.
During the past two weeks, rock installation vessel Simon Stevin has installed about 25,000 tonnes of rock berms to ensure the protection of the HVAC interconnector cables on the seabed. These works conclude the campaign of 2025 at DolWin kappa.
In the spring of 2026, the last connection and testing works are planned, after the installation of the Nordseecluster 1 and 2 stations.
