The month before, RWE signed up a Jan De Nul-Hellenic Cables consortium for the supply and installation of the entire cable system for the 1 GW offshore wind farm.
Under the contract, Hellenic Cables and Jan De Nul will manufacture and install 60 kilometres of export cables on the 30-kilometre-long cable route from the offshore wind farm to shore, and approximately 200 kilometres of inter-array cables.
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The two companies are also in charge of delivering and installing the onshore cables from the landfall to the onshore substation, delivered by Siemens Energy which is working with MT Højgaard Danmark on the civil engineering and construction work.
The offshore wind farm, located around 22 kilometres from Thorsminde on the west coast of Jutland, will feature Siemens Gamesa SG 14-236 DD wind turbines installed on monopile foundations. Of the 72 wind turbines at the Thor offshore wind farm, 40 will be equipped with recyclable rotor blades .
The production of the monopile foundations for RWE’s project started at the beginning of this year and the installation of Siemens Gamesa’s wind turbines at the offshore site is expected to start in 2026.
The 1 GW Thor is scheduled to enter full operation in 2027, when it will become Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm.
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Work on the onshore cable route for RWE’s offshore wind farm Thor has started near the onshore substation located south of Lemvig, Denmark. The activities, scheduled to be underway from mid-April until the end of October, are starting with horizontal directional drilling under the dune and a field i
