United Kingdom – DEME Offshore has awarded a major contract to Tekmar Energy Limited to supply Cable Protection Systems (CPS) for the Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the United Kingdom.
Dogger Bank is a 3.6GW offshore wind farm 130 kilometres off England’s north coast. The project, a joint venture between SSE Renewables, Equinor, and Eni, is expected to become the world’s largest offshore wind farm once fully operational, capable of generating enough renewable energy to power six million UK homes.
On the first two phases of the wind farm, Dogger Bank A and B, Tekmar Energy has signed a contract with EPCI contractor DEME Offshore to design, manufacture, and supply Generation 10 TekTube CPS to protect subsea inter array cables, with a customer option for the third phase, Dogger Bank C. Tekmar Energy has received its largest CPS supply contract to date.
For the third phase of the project, all systems will be manufactured at Tekmar’s in the North East of England, which is less than 50 kilometres from Dogger Bank’s export cable landfall site in Teesside. The first systems will be delivered in August 2022, with production continuing through 2024.
Tekmar Energy collaborated with sister companies Subsea Innovation, AgileTek Engineering, and Ryder Geotechnical to design a holistic cable protection solution that was engineered to overcome the wind farm’s challenging site conditions.
