DEME : Offshore secures cable contract for first offshore wind farm in Poland
October 11, 2023 at 11:25 am EDT
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DEME Offshore has secured a substantial cable contract for Baltic Power, the first offshore wind farm to be constructed in Poland, togetherwith its consortium partners NKT and TFKable Group. This is also the first offshore wind project for DEME Offshore in Poland.
The wide-ranging scope includes the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of both the inter-array and export cables for the wind farm. Providing more than 1.5 million households with renewable energy, the Baltic Power wind farm is being jointly developed by ORLEN Group and Northland Power, with construction expected to start in 2024 and operations in 2026.
Set to be the largest offshore wind project in Poland, the 1.2 GW wind farm will be located 23 km off the coast of the Polish Baltic Sea coast, near Łeba.
Representing approximately 130 km of export cables and 127 km of inter-array cables, DEME Offshore will execute the contract with consortium partners NKT, a leading power cable supplier in the energy sector, and TFKable Group (TELE-FONIKA Kable and JDR Cable Systems), a leading supplier of cables for offshore and onshore wind energy. DEME's share in the contract represents a substantial (1) contract.
Philip Scheers, Business Unit Director at DEME Offshore said: "We are delighted to partner with Baltic Power and secure our first offshore wind farm project in Poland. Combining the extensive expertise and innovative solutions of the consortium, we are excited to make a meaningful contribution to this pioneering project and support Poland's transition to clean energy."
(1) A 'substantial' contract refers to a contract with a value of EUR 150 - 300 million.
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DEME Group NV is a global marine sustainable solutions provider. The activity is organized around four segments:
- DEME Offshore Energy: In this segment, the Group provides engineering and contracting services globally in the offshore renewables and non-renewables sectors. In the offshore renewables, the Group is involved in the full Balance of Plant scope for offshore wind farms. This includes the engineering, the procurement, the construction and the installation of foundations, turbines, inter-array cables, export cables and substations. The Group also offers operations and maintenance, logistics, repair, decommissioning and salvage services to the market. In the offshore non-renewables, the Group performs landfalls, rock placement, heavy lift and decommissioning services;
- DEME Dredging & Infra: In this segment, the Group performs a wide variety of dredging activities worldwide, including capital and maintenance dredging, land reclamation, port construction, coastal protection and beach nourishment works. The Group also provides engineering and contracting services for other types of marine infrastructure projects, such as port terminals, canals, bored and immersed tunnels, bridges and dams. In addition, the Group is active in the marine aggregates business, which includes dredging, processing, storage and transport of aggregates;
- DEME Environmental: The Group offers innovative solutions for soil remediation and brownfield redevelopment, as well as environmental dredging and sediment treatment. It is mainly active in the Benelux, France, and other European countries on a project-by-project basis;
- DEME Concessions: DEME Concessions is the investment and development arm of the Group. It invests in, develops, builds and operates greenfield and brownfield projects in three sectors: offshore wind, dredging and marine infrastructure, and green hydrogen. Besides creating economic value on its projects and generating equity returns on its investments, it also aims to secure regular activities for the Group contracting activities in the EPC phases of its projects. DEME Concessions also has a deep-sea exploration division (GSR) that holds concessions of polymetallic nodules and that is developing a technology to collect and process those nodules containing nickel, cobalt, manganese and copper from the deep ocean floor.