Nexans Goes Full Steam Ahead with Beatrice Works

Nexans has completed the installation of its 400kV Outdoor Sealing Ends at Blackhillock, where the onshore substation for the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm is being built.

In May 2016, Nexans won a contract for cable works on the Beatrice wind farm together with Siemens, who is in charge of supplying, installing and commissioning the wind farm’s turbines.

To connect the wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth with the grid on land, power will be carried by offshore and onshore cables to the new onshore substation at Blackhillock.

Nexans recently carried out the pull-in of the export cable 1.2 to the first Siemens Offshore Transformer Module at the Beatrice site.

Located in the Outer Moray Firth offshore Scotland, the 588MW wind farm will comprise 84 Siemens 7MW turbines and two Siemens OTMs, all placed on top of jacket foundations.

The first turbines are scheduled to be installed this summer, with the wind farm expected to be commissioned by the end of 2019.

Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL), the owner and developer of the wind farm, is a joint venture partnership between SSE (40%), Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (35%) and Red Rock Power Ltd. (25%).