East Anglia THREE Powers Ahead with Offshore Cable Milestone
ScottishPower’s 1.4GW East Anglia THREE deploys first 147km HVDC export cables (320kV) in Suffolk, targeting 2026 completion.
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The first section of export cable from ScottishPower Renewables’ East Anglia THREE offshore windfarm has been pulled ashore at Bawdsey in Suffolk as the £4 billion clean energy project reaches another milestone.
The windfarm’s offshore cables will carry its 1.4 GW of clean power around 147km from the offshore substation to land – around the same distance as London to Norwich.
From landfall, the onshore cables will then carry the renewable electricity a further 37km to the HVDC converter station at Bramford, near Ipswich using the ducting laid during the development of East Anglia ONE.
The 1.4 GW East Anglia THREE offshore windfarm will be the biggest-ever windfarm across the whole of the Iberdrola group and among the largest in the world when it comes into operation.
Once up and running at the end of 2026, it will generate enough clean and green electricity to power the equivalent of more than one million homes.
The design, manufacturing and installation of the complete 320 kV HVDC export power cable system was carried out by NKT.
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