Chinese power cable specialist Orient Cable to provide and install a 185-kilometre, 35 kV subsea cable system for Vietnam’s Binh Dai offshore wind farm

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Chinese power cable specialist Orient Cable to provide and install a 185-kilometre, 35 kV subsea cable system for Vietnam’s Binh Dai offshore wind farm

Chinese power cable specialist Orient Cable has secured its first engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract for an offshore wind project in Vietnam.

Orient Cable has been contracted to provide and install a 185-kilometre, 35 kV subsea cable system for the Binh Dai offshore wind farm.

The project is located in the Binh Dai District, Thua Duc Commune, seven kilometres offshore.

Due to the wind farm’s proximity to the mainland, all of the subsea cables will be connected directly from the wind farm to the onshore substation, eliminating the need for an export cable.

Orient Cable plans to deliver the cable system in the first quarter of 2021.

The 310 MW Binh Dai offshore wind farm will comprise 74 wind turbines supplied by Siemens Gamesa and Goldwind. The turbines will be installed in phases.

The consortium of PowerChina Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited and PowerChina International Group Limited is the EPC contractor for the project.

The wind farm is being developed by the Mekong Wind Power Joint Stock Company, a special purpose company owned by Thailand’s Gulf Energy Development Public Co Ltd.

Source: https://www.offshorewind.biz/2020/09/11/orient-cable-cracks-vietnamese-offshore-wind-market/

Chinese company Orient Cable has won its first engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract in Vietnam for the 310MW Binh Dai offshore wind farm.

Orient Cable will supply and install 185km of 35kV subsea cabling for the project located off the coast Binh Dai district of Thua Duc.

The company said the project is located only 7km from shore and so all the turbines will be connected directly from the wind farm to the onshore substation without an ‘export cable’.

Delivery is planned for the first quarter of next year, Orient Cable said.

Binh Dai will feature a 74 turbines supplied by both Siemens Gamesa and Goldwind, it added.

Source: https://renews.biz/63061/chinese-cable-crew-wins-first-offshore-job-in-vietnam/