General Cable supplies wind power project

General Cable Corp. is helping to develop a major wind power project in the stormy North Sea. The company, based in Highland Heights, Ky., was awarded  a $30 million contract to supply about 66 miles of power cable to Germany’s BARD Engineering GmbH.
The German firm is building 80 wind turbines located 75 miles offshore that will generate 400 megawatts of electricity.  To be built off the Isle of Borkum, it’s the first commercial wind farm in the North Sea and should be up and running in 2010.
“The North Sea will be an area of high growth for wind power generation due to its ideal conditions of high sustainability of wind and shallow waters, key factors allowing for efficient use of the turbines and for anchoring the windmill towers,” said Valentin Jug, chairman of General Cable subsidiary, Norddeutsche Seekablewerke (NSW), which will handle the contract.
General Cable develops, designs, manufactures and sells copper, aluminum and fiber optic wire and cable products for the energy, industrial, and communications markets.
Source: Michael P. Dickerson, General Cable Corp.
Writer: David Holthaus