INTEGRATED CABLE SOLUTIONS

FOR OFFSHORE WIND DEVELOPMENT

OFFSHORE WIND BRINGS NEW OPPORTUNITIES

Offshore wind is one of the most stable New industry trends and drivers
sources of renewable energy. Power • Increased cost-competitiveness: Offshore wind power
fluctuations are minimal due to prevalent solutions are getting less and less expensive
ocean wind patterns. And the need for
• Larger and more efficient turbines: Higher energy
standby generator capacity for peak load
capture, increased reliability and lower operating and
servicing is largely eliminated through
maintenance costs can generate considerable savings
accurate weather forecasting combined with
per unit. Next-generation12-15 MW turbines requires
remote databased control and management.
durable, large capacity cables
This reduces costs, enhances network
stability, and contributes to a balanced clean • Deeper waters farther out to sea: Offshore towers and
power supply. infrastructure must be able to handle severe ocean
conditions. Cables and components need to be salt-
and water-resistant and display dynamic maritime
In the near future, installed offshore wind production
qualities
capacity is expected to increase from 20 GW today
up to 150 GW by 2030, thus becoming a trustworthy • Upgraded transmission and interconnection
renewable resource for Europe’s integrated supergrids infrastructure: Ocean-based turbines, whether fullscale
of the future. Indeed, offshore wind is deemed to play a floating devices or grounded on the seabed, require
key role in “keeping global warming below 2° C,” the appropriate infrastructure to export energy to land-based
objective of the Paris Agreement 2018. grids, and provide telecommunications for remote
control
Recent offshore wind trends include a move towards larger • Improved supply chain, logistics and installation:
turbines and deep-water floating units. Offshore projects Optimization could potentially achieve 3 % savings.
(up to 200 km from shore) require robust cables, precise This demands cable and accessories availability, as
maritime installation, as well as efficient long-distance well as onsite delivery and installation using specialized
transmission, involving innovative cable solutions and cable laying vessels. This requires marine proficiency
reliable accessories. and cable-laying capability
• Partnerships and trans-regional cooperation: This
is especially crucial in research, technological
development and training. International projects require
specialized cable expertise, shared knowhow, and
adherence to world standards
INTEGRATING CABLES AN
ND POWER ACCESSORIES IN TOUGH SEA CONDITIONS

Nexans has the expertise to outfit large

offshore wind turbines, interconnect them in
complete windfarms, and link them to distant
or local or grids. For medium and high-
voltage cables, Nexans oversee complete
installation, from initial pre-qualification,
design, customized production, logistics,
installation, testing and pre-commissioning.
This includes all accessories, a key element in
any efficient energy network.
Nexans supply and lay MV subsea cables between wind
turbines and the transformer platform, and the MV or HV
link to the onshore substation. Nexans also provide power
accessories and topside termination on wind turbines
and transformer platforms. At the same time, we have
been developing cables and power accessories for those
OEMs producing a new generation of stationary and
floating turbines.
Apart from a full range of energy cables and services,
Nexans is also an expert in the telecommunications
infrastructure needed to manage offshore wind parks,
including control and data cables, copper and fiber Local
Area Networks.
Innovative technologies
• World supplier of submarine and underground cables,
overhead conductors and data/telecom systems
• Close partnership with developers, power utilities,
installers and contractors
• Mastery of maritime conditions based on oil & gas
submarine energy and telecom cabling experience
• Unsurpassed offshore installation and topside
termination experience using advanced equipment,
special software for overhead lines, and dynamic cable
solutions
• Complete range of power accessories: separable outer-
cone T-connectors, bushings, surge-arresters,
cold-shrinkable and heat-shrinkable joints and
terminations for various types of cables
• A wide range of aluminum based solutions, mechanical
connectors, cable lugs and pre-manufactured cable
kits for offshore wind turbine manufacturers, ensuring
reliable aluminum to copper connectivity
• System solutions in the transition piece where junction
frames or cabinets assure the link between an inter
array cable and the switch in the basement of a tower.
This ensures easy and effective mounting and a clear
responsibility border during build-up of the tower
PRE-TERMINATED TURBINE CABLE SOLUTIONS

Nexans WINDLINK® offer proposes a full range of reliable, high-performance cable solutions
for wind turbines. WINDLINK® contributes to improve wind turbine output and performance and
comprises solutions for both towers and nacelles. Fully tested electrical systems and easy-to-
install kits considerably reduce installation time. Some of the main product families include:

Low-voltage loop rubber cables (EPR cable class 5) Low-voltage fixed installation cables
• These cables (up to 1 kV) reliably transmit energy • Copper can be single or multicore, with
produced in the generator to the transformer EMC screening
• They come in Low-Smoke Zero-Halogen (LSZH) versions, • Aluminium single core are larger but cheaper; their
and are also oil-, abrasion-, UV- and ozone resistant lightness make them easier to handle and install in towers
> Whenever Nexans supplies this type of cable, lifetime > Nexans has supplied a wide range of LV installation
tests according to movement and torsion requirements cables to Alstom Wind, Nordex, Siemens, Vestas,
are performed. GE, etc

Low-voltage loop aluminum cables

Low-voltage joints and accessories
• Nexans systems use • Innovative cable design to allow torsion requirements
mechanical shear-off- head due to nacelle rotation
bolt connector with an • 150 mm2 to 400 mm2 aluminum replaces 95 mm2 to
innovative rubber sleeve 240 mm2 copper
which enable them to
• Mechanical connectors with shear-off-head bolts tolerate
withstand thermal cycling and
different conductor cross-sections. The force of the screw
tower vibration throughout the
creates electrical contact between the conductor and
turbine lifetime
connector body
• A new connector made of high-strength aluminum alloy
• Factory pre-installed solutions, including cables, lugs
(copper to aluminum) with a protective roll-on sleeve is fast
and connectors
and easy to install without special tools
> Roll-on sleeves offer protection, insulation, short-circuit Medium-voltage loop rubber cables
stability and long-term reliability

Low-voltage kits
• To facilitate assembly,
Nexans provides pre-
terminated kits which bundle
energy, control and data
cables for wind turbine
electronics
• Also, cut-to-length, pre-connectorized, all-power cables
are supplied to tower manufacturers for generator-to-
switchgear-to-main-powerline links

• Similar to LV loop cables, they can handle up to 66 kV

between the transformer and the switchgear at the base
A full range of WINDLINK® rubber cables.
> We are delivering MV loop cables in 3+1 core or 3+3
core designs to all the major WTG manufacturers using
this solution
MV accessories designed to reduce Medium-voltage connectors
installation time • Nexans safe-to-touch
T-shaped standard outer
cone connectors are designed
for the new generation of
compact switchgears and
transformers
• Power accessories can also
accommodate larger cross-sections up to 1 200 mm² of
large turbines and cable-to-cable connections up to 66 kV
(Umax=72,5kV), all in an outer cone version
> The compact design makes it easy to connect to the
transformer’s three phases without female units

Auxiliary equipment
and systems
• A range of offshore junction cabinets (OJC) or frames
(OJF) for use in the transition piece of turbine towers and Mechanical support (hang-
in substations. Pre-terminated leads offer important off and clamping systems,
cost savings protective shells ⁄ slabs ⁄
mattresses)
• For offshore, an OJC can be used as a connectionpoint
between tower cables and subsea array cables > Easy-to-install hang-offs to
fasten energy cables above
• Cabinets and frames can also be used in offshore
sea level, available sealed
substation solutions
or non-sealed
> Our terminations and joints make installation quick,
easy and long lasting. Specific training courses in
power accessories installation are available
SUBSEA CABLE SOLUTIONS

Medium-voltage cables
66 kV Power Accessories
• Cost-efficient submarine 3-core
cables with integrated fiber optic With the development of the 66
elements and customized armor kV inter-array cable, the full range
designs up to 66 kV voltage level of bushings, connectors, surge
arresters, terminations, joints and
> Nexans has provided the world’s
special alloy contacts for large
first 66 kV inter-array for the Blyth
cross-sections were developed.
Offshore Demonstrator Windfarm
The connectors are based on the
High-voltage export cables outer cone standard and the piggy-back principle.
Besides the easy mounting conditions of a plug-
• Offshore HVAC transmission:
in connector, they are also easy to use in an
submarine cables ranging from
environment of 2 or more cables for one phase.
123 kV to 420 kV with various
Surge arresters can be plugged into the connector.
designs available: qualified for
up to 420 kV for both single and
3-core XLPE cables
• Offshore DC transmission applicable for high transmission Power Accessories
requirements and long distances: mass-impregnated cables Nexans delivers a complete cable
qualified for up to 525 kV and XLPE insulated DC cables system including a full range of power
qualified for up to 400 kV accessories such as GIS termination,
• Onshore transmission: HVAC and HVDC Land cables outdoor termination, joints, etc. for
solution qualified up to 525 kV voltage up to 525 kV.
> Nexans has developed, supplied and installed 2x70 km
of 245 kV XLPE 3-core submarine cables and 6x20 km of
HVAC land cables for the Beatrice offshore wind farm
> Nexans will supply and install the 320 kV XLPE HVDC Export cables at 245 kV and above
export cables for the Dolwin 6 project, connecting German
In Europe, USA and Asia, Offshore windfarms
offshore windfarms to the shore
are being built further offshore with increasing
production capacities above 1 GW, requiring
higher transmission voltages.

Currently offshore windfarms are connected to

shore at a 245 kV voltage level with several cable
installed in parallel. With continuous improvement
in insulation material, export cables can now be
delivered up to 420 kV HVAC in single core or
three core configuration.
DYNAMIC CABLES FOR FLOATING WIND POWER
For deeper and further offshore sites, floating wind turbines need to be used. To connect
the wind turbines together and to export power to shore, the use of dynamic power cable is
required. With its long experience in dynamic umbilicals, Nexans is a pioneer in designing
and manufacturing dynamic power cables systems. Nexans provides a complete solution
including in-house dynamic analysis, manufacturing, testing as well as a full range of
optimized accessories for the dynamic cable system.

In 2017, Nexans supplied export cable and inter-array cables for

the world’s first floating offshore wind farm, Hywind Scotland.
INSTALLATION SERVICES: CLV NEXANS AURORA

Nexans Aurora encompasses more than a century of our experience in submarine cable
installation and brings it to the next level with regards to capacity and capability.

Large capacity Prepared for the future

Nexans Aurora is equipped with a large capacity cable Nexans Aurora is prepared for vertical lay operations
handling spread including a 10 000 tonnes split turntable and complex subsea construction tasks in deep waters
with dual product lay lines with capacities and features in addition to the principle built in structural and system
to handle safely and efficiently the full Nexans submarine capacities and flexible design features to allow easy
systems product line. adaptation to customers future needs.

High capability Self contained

The vessel also contains a dedicated enclosed cable Nexans Aurora is designed and equipped to make
splicing area offering a controlled environment for the vessel as self contained as possible. This includes
performance of all product splicing and termination work capacity for long range and long duration operations
to the exact standard as performed in our factories. without resupply as well as onboard facilities to ensure
a high level of independence and reduced need for
World leading design local support during operations in areas of minimal
The design is based on the combined experience of infrastructure.
Nexans, Skipsteknisk, Ulstein Verft and MAATS Tech,
each world leading in their own fields to produce a Environmentally friendly
subsea cable and umbilical systems installation vessel for Nexans Aurora offers environmentally friendly solutions
worldwide operations, covering the full range of shallow with a high efficiency diesel generator plant using low
and deep subsea activities. Sulphur fuel, regeneration of cable lay braking power and
use of power from shore during cable loading operations.
Highest level of security
The vessel design offers inherent separation of work and
Nexans Aurora offers the highest level of safety and living areas with the application of the highest work
redundancy in design and equipment level to ensure an environment standards including exclusive use of single
unsurpassed operational standard and ensured uptime cabins.
regardless of area of operation.

Read more and watch video of CLV Nexans Aurora at:

www.nexans.com/aurora
INSTALLATION SERVICES: CAPJET®

Installation services: Capjet® System

The CAPJET® system was developed as a diver-operated system in 1976, and acquired by Nexans in 1987.
The CAPJET® 1 MW system, using a 1.1 MW underwater power supply, was developed in 1991. The system has been
subsequently enhanced with special features for flexible and steel pipelines, umbilicals and power cables, seismic cables and
rock-cutting modules, as well as equipment for covering and surveying for final documentation (pipetracker, multibeam etc.).

Installation services: C/S Nexans Skagerrak

Topographical surveys, design and engineering are done
in close cooperation with the customer. Actual installation
involves project management and carefully planned
logistics. Long after commissioning and testing, Nexans is
still present to train personel and intervene rapidly in case
of system failure.
> C/S Nexans Skagerrak was the first purpose-built
vessel for transport and laying of large submarine power
cables. She has a unique service record covering
installation of cables and umbilicals including some of the
world’s largest power cables. Developments in the laying
of long and heavy submarine cables at greater depths,
have made it necessary to employ larger and more
specialised transport and laying vessels built especially for
that purpose
INSPECTION, MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR

The world depends on reliable power A Nexans IMR (Inspection, Maintenance and Repair)
supplies, but sometimes accidents happen. agreement not only reduces failure risk to cable systems
Major electricity transfer lines can suffer through proactive inspection and maintenance, but also
from outages for as long as a year without increases efficiency when dealing with unexpected
a proper contingency plan. Sourcing the incidents. We will make sure you are prepared for the
right experts with availability to fix the unexpected and able to effectively reduce the response
problem can be time-consuming and lead to time to a cable failure.
economical loss, while complex engineering
and judicial processes block the road to a repair.

70%
Up to

time saved

Nexans has a long track record within cable repairs all Read more and watch video of our IMR service at:
over the world including Asia, Africa, Europe and the www.nexans.com/imr
North Sea region. During the last 40 years, Nexans
has successfully installed over 50 offshore repair joints
after external damages on HV submarine cables, often
performed in harsh weather conditions.
NEXANS’ PRESENCE IN MAJOR OFFSHORE WIND FARMS

By the year 2020, the installed capacity in Europe will be about 25 GW. Nexans is present with
cable solutions in approx. 50% of these windfarms, and plans to further develop this business
to extend its presence all over the world with ever higher performing cable solutions.

Beatrice
BOWL
588 MW
220 kV + 400kV onshore
260 km (offshore + onshore)

Blyth
EDF ENERGY RE-
NEWABLES
41.5 MW
72 kV
37 km

Westermost Rough
ØRSTED
210 MW
36 kV
53 km

Walney Extension
ØRSTED
200 MW
72 kV
190 km

West of Duddon Sands

ØRSTED
389 MW
36 kV
123 km

Barrow
ØRSTED
90 MW
145 kV
27 km

Arklow
GE WIND
25 MW
36 kV
20 km

Burbo Bank
ØRSTED
210 MW
36 kV
56 km
East Anglia One
Hornsea 2 Hornsea 1 SCOTTISH POWER London Array Belwind
ØRSTED ØRSTED RENEWABLES ØRSTED VAN OORD
270 MW 406 MW 714 MW 630 MW 165 MW
245 kV 36 kV 245 kV 170 kV 170 kV
3 x 66 km 140 km 2 x 85 km 4 x 53 km 52 km
 Hywind (floating)
EQUINOR
2,3 MW
24 kV
12 km

Hywind Scotland(floating)
EQUINOR
30 MW
36 kV
36 km

Anholt
ØRSTED
400 MW
36 kV
160 km

Arkona Südost
e.on
400 MW
36 kV
77 km

Horns Rev 1
ØRSTED
160 MW
170 kV + 33 kV
42 km

Horns Rev 2
ØRSTED
210 MW
170 kV + 33 kV
70 km

DOLWIN 6
ØRSTED
900 MW
320 kV
2 x 86 km

Borkum Riffgrund 1&2

ØRSTED
312 MW + 450 MW
36 kV
81 km + 105 km

Gode Wind 1&2

ØRSTED
330 MW + 252 MW
36 kV
134 km

Northwester 2 Northwind Riffgat

PARKWIND NV NORTHWIND N.V. ENOVA / EWE
245 kV 216 MW 115 MW
18 km 245 kV 36 kV
57 km 18 km
Nexans brings energy to life through an extensive range of advanced cabling systems, solutions and
innovative services. For over 120 years, Nexans has been providing customers with cutting-edge
cabling infrastructure for power and data transmission. Today, beyond cables, the Group advises
customers and designs solutions and services that maximize performance and efficiency of their
projects in four main business areas: Building & Territories (including utilities, e­mobility), High Vol-
tage & Projects (covering offshore wind farms, submarine interconnections, land high voltage), Te-
lecom & Data (covering data transmission, telecom networks, hyperscale data centers, LAN), and
Industry & Solutions (including renewables, transportation, Oil & Gas, automation, and others).
Corporate Social Responsibility is a guiding principle of Nexans’ business activities and internal prac-
tices. In 2013 Nexans became the first cable provider to create a Foundation supporting sustainable
initiatives bringing access to energy to disadvantaged communities worldwide. The Group’s commit-
ment to developing ethical, sustainable and high-quality cables also drives its active involvement wit-
hin leading industry associations, including Europacable, the NEMA, ICF or CIGRE to mention a few.
Nexans employs nearly 27,000 people with industrial footprint in 34 countries and com-
mercial activities worldwide. In 2018, the Group generated 6.5 billion euros in sales.
Nexans is listed on Euronext Paris, compartment A.

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