Luchterduinen Export Cable
OperationalOffshore GridNL129 MW150 kV33 km2015
Basic information
8 fieldsAlso Known As
Eneco Luchterduinen - Export Cable
Status
operational
Capacity
129 MW
Project Company
Type
offshore grid
Transmission Model
Developer Full
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Project Timeline (9)
9 Dec 2025Maintenance OtherStale
On 9 December 2025, XOCEAN was announced as having secured a five-year contract, coordinated by Eneco, to provide low-carbon bathymetric survey services across six Dutch offshore wind farms including Eneco Luchterduinen, covering inspection of monopile foundations, inter-array cables, and export cable assets. XOCEAN will deploy remotely operated uncrewed surface vessels to collect high-resolution subsea data on the Luchterduinen export cable system and associated infrastructure, supporting asset integrity assessment, maintenance planning, and long-term performance optimisation during the operational phase.
21 Oct 2021Major Maintenance
In October 2021, Eneco commissioned Jan De Nul to carry out a major maintenance campaign on the Luchterduinen export cable, reburying the nearshore section to restore adequate depth of cover after morphological seabed changes had reduced burial depth. Using its modified intertidal trencher Sunfish, Jan De Nul reburied the live 150 kV export cable from the offshore high-voltage station towards the Noordwijk landfall to a minimum of 2.5 metres below the seabed, working up to 1 kilometre offshore in water depths of around 8.5 metres, ensuring continued protection of the operational transmission link without shutting down the wind farm.
2015Commercial Operations Full Power
In 2015, the Eneco Luchterduinen offshore wind farm, which exports power via a single 25 km, 150 kV export cable from its offshore high-voltage station to shore, was commissioned and entered full commercial operation, enabling the 129 MW project to deliver electricity to customers through the Luchterduinen export cable connection.
5 Oct 2015Procurement Other
Bandweaver was awarded a contract to supply a real‑time thermal rating (RTTR) system, used with fibre‑optic distributed temperature sensors, to protect a roughly 32 km export cable link for the Luchterduinen offshore wind farm, with the system supplied to Eneco in partnership with Sensornet/Invensys.
5 Oct 2015Joint Venture Formed
Dutch energy company Eneco and Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation are reported to have developed the 129 MW Eneco Luchterduinen offshore wind farm via a 50/50 joint venture; as part of this project Bandweaver’s real-time thermal rating system is used to protect the 32 km offshore export cable linking the wind farm to shore, implying shared ownership of the associated transmission assets.
2014Offshore Site Preparation
In 2014, as part of construction of Eneco Luchterduinen, rock installation at cable crossings was carried out to prepare and protect the seabed for the export and infield cables prior to or during cable laying.
Dec 2014Cable Installation Complete
By the time of the second seabird construction monitoring survey in December 2014, all cables at Eneco Luchterduinen, including the export cable, had been laid and buried and no further cable installation activities were taking place, indicating completion of the export cable installation campaign.
2014Offshore Construction Start
Offshore construction for the Eneco Luchterduinen wind farm, including installation of the export cable and associated transmission works, started in 2014 in the Dutch North Sea about 23 kilometres off the coast between Noordwijk and Zandvoort.
28 Apr 2014Procurement Other
Cabling specialist VSMC, a joint venture of VolkerWessels and Boskalis, was awarded by EPC contractor Van Oord Offshore Wind Projects a contract to install and bury the approximately 25 km export cable for the Eneco Luchterduinen offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea, with installation to be executed in September 2014 using Boskalis’ Trenchformer burial tool and the new cable‑laying vessel Ndurance.