VSMC awarded Eneco Luchterduinen export cable installation contract

Cabling specialist VSMC, a joint VolkerWessels and Boskalis company has been awarded a contract by Van Oord Offshore Wind Projects bv to install and bury a 25km long export cable for the Eneco Luchterduinen Offshore Wind Farm, Boskalis said Monday in a press release.

43 Wind turbines
The Eneco Luchterduinen Offshore Wind Farm, to be built by Eneco and Mitsubishi Corporation, will be situated in the North Sea, 23 km off the coast between Noordwijk and Zandvoort, the Netherlands. With 43 wind turbines in total, Luchterduinen will provide up to 150,000 Dutch homes with green energy.

Trenchformer & Ndurance
The project will be executed in September of this year using the in-house developed burial tool, the Trenchformer and the newly built cable-laying vessel Ndurance.