{"id":49031,"date":"2026-03-26T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/49031\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:19:07","slug":"first-hornsea-3-offshore-export-cable-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/49031\/","title":{"rendered":"First Hornsea 3 Offshore Export Cable In Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first export cable for the Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm has been laid and pulled into shore, according to an update from \u00d8rsted on 26 March. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Hornsea-3-Export-cable-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100311500\"  \/>\u00d8rsted <\/p>\n<p>NKT, the project\u2019s export cable supplier, began manufacturing the cables three years ago and will complete them this summer, while Jan de Nul will transport and install a total of 680 kilometres of export cable this year. <\/p>\n<p>The export cable consists of two HVDC cables and a fibre optic cable that transmits information back to the wind farm operations centre, which are bundled together during the installation process.<\/p>\n<p>Once the 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 is operational, the offshore export cable will transport the electricity to the onshore cable, which runs more than 50 kilometres underground to the onshore converter station at Swardeston, Norfolk.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offshorewind.biz\/?s=hornsea+3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Hornsea 3<\/a>\u00a0offshore wind farm, jointly owned by \u00d8rsted and Apollo-managed funds, is located approximately 160 kilometres off the Yorkshire coast, and is \u00d8rsted\u2019s third gigawatt-scale project in the North Sea\u2019s Hornsea zone. <\/p>\n<p>The offshore wind farm, which will feature Siemens Gamesa\u2019s 14 MW turbines, is expected to be operational in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/OW.biz-img-white-bckgrnd-1024x538.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Reach the offshore wind industry in one go!<\/p>\n<p>offshoreWIND.biz is read by thousands of offshore wind professionals every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Increase your visibility with banners, tell your story with a branded article, and showcase your expertise with a full-page company profile in our offshore wind business directory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Follow offshoreWIND.biz on:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first export cable for the Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm has been laid and pulled into shore,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[285],"tags":[383,27430,27431,287],"class_list":["post-49031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orsted","tag-hornsea-3","tag-jan-de-nul","tag-nkt-cables","tag-orsted"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116295208988475844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}