Nexans has been awarded an important contract with ScottishPower Renewables to deliver high-voltage subsea export cables for the East Anglia TWO offshore wind farm in the southern North Sea.

Nexans has been awarded the contract for the Orkney Link. The interconnector will exchange up to 220MW of energy between the Orkney Islands and the UK mainland. There will be one high voltage alternating current (HVAC) cable circuit extending approx 69km in route (53km subsea, 15km land) from Finstown in Orkney to Dounreay in Caithness. The significant contract includes both the production and the installation of the cable.

Nexans’ superconducting cable is part of the national collection of the emblematic Science Museum Group in London. The cable is displayed in Energy Revolution: The Adani Green Energy Gallery as part of a permanent display, among other prominent technologies empowering the world’s effort to curb climate change. The superconducting cable sample comes from the groundbreaking AmpaCity project in Essen, Germany.