Nexans wins $66m cable order for Belgian offshore wind farms

Frank Coenen led development of the 165MW Belwind 1

France’s Nexans has won a €50m ($65.6m) order for export cables at a pair of Belgian offshore wind farms, as the developers behind Belwind 2 and Northwind look to exploit synergies between the two projects.

The order includes 14km of cable to connect Belwind 2 and Northwind, and another 43km that will flow the 381MW of electricity produced at both projects to an Elia-owned connection station at Zeebrugge.

Both Belwind 2 and Northwind (formerly known as Eldepasco) are backed by Belgium supermarket Colruyt, while development work at both projects is being spearheaded by Frank Coenen – who has already led development of the 165MW Belwind 1.

Last year Coenen told Recharge that developing both projects in tandem would offer huge synergies in terms of the construction…

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