French copper and optical fiber cable manufacturer Nexans will supply over 200 km of the 245 kV high voltage alternating current (HVAC) subsea export cable system for Ørsted's 1.4 GW Hornsea-2 offshore wind power project, located off the Yorkshire coast of the United Kingdom. The circuits will be deployed using a similar route to Hornsea-1, for which Nexans has earlier delivered 139 km of three-phase 36 kV subsea cable connecting a total of 58 wind turbines to the offshore transformer station.
The Hornsea-2 wind project is currently under construction with completion set for 2022. It will consist of SG 8.0-167 DD turbines for a total capacity of up to 1,386 GW, enough to supply power to 1.3 million average British households. It was granted development consent by the British Secretary of State for Energy in August 2016. In September 2017, the project received a Contract for Difference (CfD) at the lowest-ever price for offshore wind in the UK (£57.50/MWh, i.e. €64.7/MWh).