VolkerInfra has won a £5m contract to install nearly 10 kilometres of power cables for the Galloper offshore wind farm.

Above: Galloper is a sister project of the existing Greater Gabbard wind farm

Working for GE’s Grid Solutions, a division of GE Energy Connections, VolkerInfra will provide the substation interconnectors and onshore export cables for the project.

VolkerWessels’ specialist cabling subsidiary will design, supply, install and pre-commission test two 132kV onshore export cables (5,300 metres of cable in total), as well as six 132kV cable circuits in the Galloper substation (1,350 metres in total), two 132kV cables to connect Galloper to a new substation at Sizewell (1,660 metres in total), two 132kV offshore cables (180 metres in total) and six 33kV circuits totalling 1,200 metres of cable.

VolkerInfra technical development director Peter Cooke said: “Following on from the successful delivery of our first 132kV project for GE’s Grid Solutions at Salle Substation, we are really excited to have been selected to support them on this much larger and more complex scheme. It is testament to the work we have been doing with other clients and another success for us. We are looking forward to establishing our site presence later this month.”

Galloper offshore wind farm is an extension of the existing and fully operational Greater Gabbard wind farm off the coast of Suffolk. The wind farm, which has grid connection secured, has an average annual generation capacity equivalent to the domestic needs of up to 336,000 average UK households.