General Cable Corp. (BGC), Highland Heights, Ky., through its wholly-owned subsidiary Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH (NSW), will supply submarine cables for a major offshore wind farm in Europe. The company will supply a complete turn-key solution including the supply and installation of 120 kilometers (approximately 74.6 miles) of submarine transmission cables and three single cores measuring 12 kilometers(approximately 7.46 miles) each of underground terrestrial transmission cables as well as associated accessories for the offshore wind farm Baltic 2.
The award has an overall order value of Euro 195 million, or $270 million at current exchange rates, with installation beginning in 2012. The Baltic 2 Wind Farm is located in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Rostock, Germany near the island of Rügen. Baltic 2 will feature 80 wind turbines, each rated at 3.6MW, for a total output of 288MW. The offshore wind farm is expected to generate 1,200 gigawatt hours of electricity per year for approximately 340,000 households and is estimated to save approximately 900,000 tons of CO2. Details