JDR Cables, part of the TFKable Group, has signed a contract with Vattenfall for the Danish Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm. JDR will manufacture more than 170 kilometres of aluminium core inter-array cables and a range of termination accessories.
Project completion is expected in 2021. The inter-array cables connecting the turbines will carry the electricity to an offshore substation, for transmission to shore. The offshore wind generation is a 33kV cable designed system. The 605MW Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm is located 15 kilometres east of the Danish coast in the Southern part of the Baltic Sea and will exists of 72 8.4MW wind turbines.