Prysmian Group

Prysmian was awarded a €27 million contract by Ormonde Energy Ltd, the Vattenfall-owned project company, to provide the submarine power cable system for the Ormonde project, including the export cable that now forms part of the Ormonde OFTO transmission assets. The scope covered design, manufacture and supply of the 132 kV three-core export cable connecting the offshore substation platform within the Ormonde wind farm to the onshore grid at Heysham, together with associated subsea joints and spare length. According to Ofgem’s project documentation, Prysmian was also responsible for installation of a single 3-core 132 kV subsea cable of about 43 km route length, buried to a depth of approximately 2 m, plus around 500 m of spare subsea cable for the OFTO asset base. The cables were manufactured at Prysmian’s Arco Felice submarine cable facility in Italy. These transmission assets were later transferred to the licensed OFTO, TC Ormonde OFTO Ltd, under the UK developer-build-transfer regime.