ABB

ABB's High Voltage Cables business in Karlskrona, Sweden supplied the complete subsea cable system for the 120 MW Prinses Amaliawindpark (Q7), the Netherlands' first deep-water offshore wind farm. ABB's scope, with Q7 Holding / Eneco as the customer, comprised both the project's export and array cable circuits delivered as XLPE submarine power cables with integrated optical fibre. The export-cable supply was a 28 km, 120 MW, 170 kV (operating voltage 150 kV) shore connection power cable with copper conductors, linking the offshore high-voltage substation in the middle of the wind farm to the landfall and onshore substation at Wijk aan Zee. ABB also supplied 40 km of 24 kV inter-turbine cables (24 kV system class; 22 kV operating) with both aluminium and copper conductors and integrated optical fibre, connecting the 60 Vestas V80-2.0 MW turbines in array strings and back to the offshore substation. The cables were installed offshore by Van Oord during the 2007 cable-lay campaign. The Q7 contract is part of ABB's reference list of XLPE submarine power cable deliveries from the mid-2000s, predating the 2017 transfer of ABB's high-voltage cable business to NKT. Per the AgentZero corporate-lineage convention, cable_* roles on this contract remain attributed to ABB.