C-Power Export

Offshore GridOperationalBE346.52 MW150 kV40 km

Basic Information

Also known as:C-Power Thorntonbank export cable, C-Power export cable A, C-Power export cable B, C-Power 150 kV export cables, C-Power Thornton Bank 150 kV export connection, Thornton Bank – Sas Slijkens 150 kV export

Status:Operational

Capacity:346.52 MW

Transmission Model:Developer Full

Owners:

RWE Innogy / RWE(26.7%)

DEME (Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering)

EDF Energies Nouvelles (EDF group)

Marguerite (Marguerite Fund)

Project Company:

Type:offshore grid

Website:www.c-power.be

Description:

C‑Power Export is the developer‑owned HVAC export connection for the C‑Power (Thornton Bank) offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea. The system evacuates generation from the Thornton Bank wind farm (325 MW) via an offshore transformer station (OTS) on Thornton Bank and two parallel 150 kV submarine export circuits...

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System Topology

Export

React Flow

Route

	North Sea	West Flanders
Landfall	N/A	Sas-Slijkens (coastal in-feed point), West Flanders, Belgium
Grid Connection	—	Sas Slijkens (Elia 150 kV substation)

North Sea

Landfall:N/A

Grid:—

West Flanders

Landfall:Sas-Slijkens (coastal in-feed point), West Flanders, Belgium

Grid:Sas Slijkens (Elia 150 kV substation)

Cable Specifications

Thornton Bank 150 kV export cable (circuits A & B)

Sas-Slijkens (coastal in-feed point), West Flanders, Belgium

2 × 150 kV HVAC · 346.52 MVA · 40 km

System:2 × 150 kV HVAC

Power rating:346.52 MVA

Route length:40 km(40 subsea)

Burial depth:

C-Power's 150 kV export route (~40 km) was surveyed and monitored; project documentation and monitoring surveys report a target/minimum depth of burial (DOB) of 1.0 m and state that this...

Collector Stations

Offshore Transformer Station (OTS)

Thornton Bank (Thornton sand bank), Belgian North Sea, Belgium

325 MW 150 kV · offshore

Rating:325 MW · 150 kV

Location:offshore

Sas Slijkens

Sas-Slijkens substation (Elia), Belgium

325 MW 150 kV · onshore

Rating:325 MW · 150 kV

Location:onshore