When built, Hornsea 3 will supply enough clean energy to power 3.2 million homes. Credit: Ørsted.

Danish energy giant Ørsted has selected Italian cable manufacturer Prysmian to supply inter-array submarine cables for its 2.85GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm, to be located 120km off the UK coast.

Prysmian will design, manufacture, supply and test the inter-array submarine cable system that will connect all the wind turbines to the offshore converter station.

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The Italian company will produce 280km of 66kV inter-array cables with XLPE insulation, meeting 50% of the wind farm’s requirements.

It will produce all the submarine cable cores at its facilities in Montereau and Gron, France, while the armouring and assembling processes will take place at the Nordenham plant in Germany. The cables will be delivered in 2026.

Prysmian Group offshore wind sales team manager Juliano De Mello stated: “This award reflects Ørsted’s trust in Prysmian’s capabilities to meet the increasing need for submarine cable systems to support the energy transition to smarter and greener power grids.

“We are very pleased and proud for having been chosen again to undertake such a challenging project supporting Ørsted to meet the UK Government’s ambition to deliver 50GW of offshore wind power by 2030 as part of the British energy security strategy.”

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Hornsea 3 will include 231 wind turbines generating 2.85GW of clean energy annually and will power 3.2 million UK homes.

In July 2023, Ørsted won a contract for difference for the offshore wind farm from the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Hornsea 3 will contribute significantly to the UK’s goal of generating 50GW from offshore wind by 2030.