Horns Rev 1

In connection with the establishing of a new wind farm at Horns Rev we have laid the widest submarine cable in the world. The cable has a diameter of 20 cm and weighs 75 kilo per running metre. It has been laid at a 22-kilometre long distance from the West coast of Jutland to Horns Rev.

The work was carried out from the cable vessel Henry P. Lading and was a subcontract from the cable producer NEXANS. The Danish energy company Elsam A/S is responsible for building the wind farm, and the work can be followed on a web camera from the Internet address http://www.hornsrev.dk/.

Besides the laying of the largest cable in the world, JD-Contractor A/S has the contract for laying and embedding some of the submarine cables connected to the farm, therefore M/S Cable One and M/S Honte also participated in the construction of Horns Rev wind farm.

Video of the cable laying - Click here

Manager of Eltra`s linedivision Søren Damsgaard Mikkelsen holding a cross section
of the cable.

 

2002 - Horns Rev 1 offshore wind farm:

Laying of submarine cables – 30,543 metres

Embedding of submarine cables – 52,404 metres

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