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Onshore cabling completes on next world-leading wind farm

VolkerInfra delivers for Orsted's Hornsea Two offshore addition

VolkerInfra completes work on the onshore cabling of Hornsea Two offshore wind farm - running from Horseshoe Point to North Killingholme.(Image: Orsted)

A staggering 350 km of high voltage electrical cabling has now been laid to connect Hornsea Two offshore wind farm to the National Grid.

Contractor VolkerInfra has completed the installation, which runs from landfall at Horseshoe Point to the new substation at North Killingholme, skirting North East Lincolnshire.

It followed the same route as Hornsea One, which it will succeed as the world’s largest offshore wind farm when built.

Hornsea Three - just given the go-ahead by the government - will not connect in the same place, with cabling heading south to Norwich, through North Norfolk from the site 89km off the East Yorkshire coast.

Mark Robinson, senior operations manager for the Lancashire-based international cable and pipeline specialist, said: “We are delighted to have reached a significant milestone on this highly strategic project for our client Ørsted. The team has successfully completed the installation of three 220kV circuits along the 39km onshore cable route for the Hornsea two wind farm.”

Thanking all involved, he said the works - involving significant mechanical trench digging - had been delivered ahead of schedule.

Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm location.(Image: Orsted)


The route from Horseshoe Point, bottom right, to North Killingholme, passing north of Tetney, south of Holton-le-Clay, bending round Waltham and north west to Laceby then west of Stallingborough, east of Keelby and west of Immingham, before snaking between the Killingholme villages and the two oil refineries to end at the new substation of Chase Hill Lane, North Killingholme.

Reinstatement works are expected to continue on the ground until mid-2021 as work also continues 89km offshore.

Luke Bridgeman, Ørsted’s deputy director for Hornsea Two, said: “Our teams have persevered relentlessly throughout this pandemic, for which we are deeply thankful. They have maintained a clear focus on collaborative behaviours, ensuring that the works were delivered with the highest standards of safety and within the original project programme.”