Van Oord completes cable installation for German wind farm

Van Oord completes cable installation for German wind farm

This week, Van Oord successfully completed cable installation work for the Borkum Riffgrund 2 project in the German North Sea.

In 2016, Ørsted contracted Van Oord to transport, install and bury the infield cables for the offshore wind farm. Cable-laying vessel Nexus was deployed to install the infield cables, including interlink cables to the Borkum Riffgrund 1 Offshore Substation.

The wind farm is located 45 kilometres off the coast of Lower Saxony, Germany. It consists of 56 wind turbines with a total capacity of 450MW.

Once completed in 2019, it will deliver green energy to 460,000 households.