Kentish Flats Export

Offshore GridOperationalGB90 MW33 kV10.6 km

Basic Information

Also known as:Kentish Flats export cables, Kentish Flats grid connection, Kentish Flats 33 kV export

Status:Operational

Capacity:90 MW

Transmission Model:Developer Full

Owners:

Vattenfall Wind Power Ltd(100%)

Type:offshore grid

Description:

Kentish Flats Export is the HVAC subsea export connection for the operational 90 MW Kentish Flats Offshore Wind Farm (30 x 3 MW Vestas V90 turbines) located in the Outer Thames Estuary. The system comprises multiple buried subsea export cables that transmit alternating current from the offshore array to a...

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Cable Specifications

Kentish Flats – Red House Farm export cable (Hampton Pier landfall)

Hampton Pier, Herne Bay, Kent, United Kingdom

3 × 33 kV MVAC · 10.6 km

System:3 × 33 kV MVAC

Route length:10.6 km(8.6 subsea · 2 land)

Burial depth:

The Kentish Flats export cables were installed buried in the seabed using specialist cable burial techniques (ploughing or water-jetting) with a shallow target/typical burial depth. Planning and environmental documents for...

Fibre optic:

Optical-fibre provision is present for communications and SCADA: project material and developer reporting state the turbine control/monitoring systems are linked to onshore communications via optical fibre cables running with the...