NKT completes repair work on Gemini Wind Park connection
Gemini Wind Park, one of the largest offshore wind parks in the Netherlands, is once again fully operational after a failure in one of the export cables between the wind park and the shore. A group of cable and energy specialists, including a repair team from NKT, helped Gemini Wind Park with a fast repair during the summer. The NKT team was responsible for the jointing of the replacement cable between the windfarm and the coast.
Press Release
23 September 2024
Around 900,000 households are powered by sustainable energy from the Gemini Wind Park. This summer, the wind farm experienced a cable failure in one of the export cables between the wind park and the shore in the Netherlands. Cable downtime can be costly and significantly lowers the output from the wind farm.
Quickly a repair team was assembled, and the NKT team led the jointing of the replacement cable between the wind farm and the Groningen coast.
“NKT is pleased to have contributed to the swift repair of the Gemini connection, bringing the wind park back to full operational capacity and supplying sustainable energy to households across the Netherlands. Restoring a subsea connection is a complex operation that requires significant skills and expertise. We greatly appreciated the strong collaboration with the Gemini team on the job execution,” says Axel Barnekow Widmark, Executive Vice President, Service & Installation at NKT.
NKT offers a variety of lifecycle on- and offshore cable services, including repair preparedness, resources on call, fault location and on- and offshore repairs.
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NKT connects a greener world with high-quality power cable technology and takes centre stage as the world moves towards green energy. NKT designs, manufactures and installs low-, medium- and high-voltage power cable solutions enabling sustainable energy transmission. Since 1891, NKT has innovated the power cable technology building the infrastructure for the first light bulbs to the megawatts created by renewable energy today. NKT is headquartered in Denmark and employs 6,000 people. NKT is listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen and realised a revenue of EUR 2.6 billion in 2023. NKT - We connect a greener world. www.NKT.com.
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