Construction specialist Mick George Ltd has been appointed on behalf of J. Murphy and Sons Ltd to complete earthworks at the main onshore cable site for the Triton Knoll wind farm offshore Lincolnshire, UK.
The firm will be stripping the easement where the cables will be placed for this 860MW project.
The Triton Knoll project involves the installation of more than 57km of underground high-voltage electrical export cable in Lincolnshire.
The route starts at the landfall location north of Anderby Creek, where the onshore and offshore cables connect. It runs to a new substation being constructed near Bicker, and then to the existing National Grid Bicker Fen Substation where the electricity from the offshore wind farm will ultimately connect into the grid.
More than 300 individual directional drills – a record for a UK infrastructure project – will ensure the onshore cables can be installed without obstructing any roads, highways, rivers or drains, the company said.
Although the two-year onshore construction programme is underway , offshore activities are not expected to begin until late 2019. First energy generation could be as early as 2021.