Axess wins cable work on Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm

Axess Technologies has secured a cable installation contract with HSM Offshore Energy for the Thor offshore wind farm located off the Danish west coast.

The scope of work includes project management, engineering, pulling, terminating, and testing the internal platform cables into the Thor offshore substation topside, covering both 66 kV and 275 kV cable systems.

Axess Technologies said that this is crucial in ensuring that the substation effectively handles and distributes the electricity generated by the wind turbines.

The work is expected to start in the first quarter of 2025 at HSM’s Schiedam yard in the Netherlands.

“This is the first contract awarded to Axess Technologies by HSM in the Netherlands. We are delighted to work on this project with HSM and its project team”, said Edwin Tieman, Business Development Manager at Axess Technologies.

RWE, the owner and developer of the Thor offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea, selected HSM Offshore Energy and its key subcontractors, Iv-Offshore & Energy and GE Renewable Energy, for the engineering, procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning of the offshore high voltage substation and its jacket foundation in 2022.

Both structures, the offshore substation and the jacket, will be built at HSM Offshore Energy’s yard in Schiedam.

The project will feature Siemens Gamesa SG 14-236 DD wind turbines installed on monopiles approximately 22 kilometers from Thorsminde on the west coast of Jutland.

Once fully commissioned in 2027, Thor will become Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm and will be capable of producing enough green electricity to supply the equivalent of more than one million Danish households.