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Project advancing - milestone achieved
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Significant progress or notable issue
On 25 April 2023, HSM Offshore Energy (part of the Smulders Group) announced it had been awarded the EPCIC — Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation and Commissioning — contract by RWE for the Thor Offshore High Voltage Substation (OHVS) that serves Denmark's largest offshore wind farm. HSM's scope covered both the jacket foundation and the topside of the 1 GW, 275 kV HVAC collector station, which aggregates power from 72 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-236 DD turbines and feeds it into the 58 km / 2-cable HVAC export cable system (delivered by Hellenic Cables and installed by Jan de Nul) landing at the Volder Mark onshore substation. Topside fabrication at HSM's Schiedam yard in the Netherlands was rolled out on 19 November 2024 and the completed OHVS sailed away to the Thor project site in July 2025, with offshore installation completed by 17 July 2025. This supplier selection event replaces the earlier year-precision placeholder (2023-01-01) that had been created from a keyfactsenergy.com summary citing only "early 2023"; the HSM press release provides the authoritative day-precision date.