Cable Route Engineering

North Irish Sea Array Windfarm Ltd, a joint venture between Statkraft and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, completed the engineering and selection of the final onshore export cable route for the NISA project, choosing the alignment with the least constructability challenges from the Bremore Bay landfall north of Balbriggan, across agricultural fields, under the Dublin–Belfast railway and along suitable roads to a new grid facility and onward connection at Belcamp substation. The route and associated landfall solution, which use horizontal directional drilling to avoid disturbing the coastline, were finalised following stakeholder consultation and iterative refinement of cable routing options and site selection for the grid facility.