Prysmian Group has been awarded a new major contract worth in excess of € 350 million by Alstom Grid for the connection project DolWin3 linking offshore wind farms in the North Sea to mainland Germany on behalf of the Dutch-German grid operator TenneT.

The project involves supply, installation and commissioning of High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) 320 kV extruded submarine and land cable power cable connections with a rating of 900 MW and associated fibre optic cable system, comprising of a 78 km land route and of a subsea route of 83 km.

The turnkey connection will link the offshore converter platform DolWin Gamma in the ‘DolWin’ cluster zone, located approximately 85 km offshore in the North Sea to the mainland with the purpose of transmitting power from renewable source into the German Grid.

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