Italy’s Prysmian Group has won contracts worth more than €200m ($234m) for the design, supply and installation of inter-array cables at two French offshore wind projects, and together with Louis Dreyfus Travocean is in the process of securing a third French offshore cable contract worth over €20m.

“These new important awards confirm that we have all the capabilities to achieve our ambitious growth targets in the offshore wind farm market,” said Hakan Ozmen, executive vice president in the projects business unit at Prysmian.

“Our investments have strengthened both our production capacity and installation capabilities and the market is showing its confidence in us.”

Eolien Maritime France, a joint venture between the French utility EDF Energies Nouvelles and Canadian peer Enbridge, has awarded the contract for inter-array cables at the Fécamp and Courseulles-sur-Mer projects off northern France that it owns jointly with Germany’s Wpd offshore.

The contracts are expected to proceed in early autumn.

The third project is for the Saint Nazaire wind farm also owned by Eolien Maritime France.

Within these projects, Prysmian will provide 33 kV three–core submarine cable systems with XLPE insulation with a total for the three wind farms of around 345km of cables.

The Fécamp project will involve connecting 83 offshore wind turbines with a total capacity of 498MW, while Courseulles-sur-Mer will connect 75 machines with a total capacity of 450MW.

Cable, accessories and terminating services shall be provided by Prysmian for the 80 turbines of the 480MW capacity of Saint Nazaire.

Prysmian will rely on the strategic and immediately available facilities of General Cable’s subsidiary NSW. Cable cores will be manufactured at the Group’s centre of excellence in Montreux, France, and then assembled and finished in Nordenham, Germany.

On Fécamp and Courseulles-sur-Mer, Prysmian will be the turn–key solution provider and shall both supply and install all inter-array cables between the turbines.

Delivery and commissioning of the cables are expected during the 2020-2022 period, depending on individual project timelines.

Prysmian said it has secured offshore wind projects for over €650m in 2017-2018.

Eolien Maritime France and Wpd offshore are waiting for the decision of the French Council of State about the appeal against the projects authorizations to start construction.

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Prysmian wins €220m cable order for three French offshore projects