Cables for Hornsea offshore wind farm to come from Greece

Hellenic will be responsible for the design, manufacturing, supply, termination and testing of inter–array cables connecting the wind turbines and the offshore converter station. Manufacturing will begin in in the last three months of 2025 in the company’s state-of-the-art submarine cable plant in Corinth, Greece.

With a capacity of around 2,85 gigawatts (GW), Hornsea 3 will be capable of producing enough low-cost, clean, renewable electricity to power more than three million UK homes – making a significant contribution to the UK Government’s ambition of having 50 GW offshore wind in operation by 2030. Ørsted has recently outlined at its Capital Markets Day that it is increasingly confident it will be a position take a Final Investment Decision on the project during 2023.

Hornsea 3 will be located 160 km from the Yorkshire coast. When fully online, Ørsted’s Hornsea zone – comprising Hornsea 1, 2 and 3 – will have a total capacity of in excess of 5 GW. This will be the world’s largest offshore wind zone, producing enough low-cost, clean, renewable electricity to power more than five million UK homes.

Hornsea 3 Senior Project Director Luke Bridgman said: “We are delighted to further Ørsted’s deepening relationship with Hellenic Cables with this important contract award for Hornsea 3. We look forward to a successful collaboration during the execution phase as part of achieving our overall Hornsea 3 goal of providing low-cost clean energy at scale.”