Siemens has placed contracts  for the construction of the transmission infrastructure for the 850MW Moray East Offshore Windfarm. Onshore undergound cables for the project stretch  35km  from near Whitehills on the Aberdeenshire coast to the new substation site south of New Deer.

BAM Nuttall has been appointed as the main subcontractor to complete the civils work for the onshore substation. 

Perth civil engineering company I & H Brown is undertaking enabling work on the onshore substation site.

JGC Engineering and Technical Services of Thurso will fabricate and fit out the high voltage equipment containers to be shipped later this summer for integration into the project’s offshore substation platforms.

Barrier Architectural has been appointed to fabricate a set of containers from its Stockton-on-Tees facility.

VolkerInfra, based in Preston, will provide and install high voltage onshore export cables .

Siemens is responsible for the complete construction of the onshore substation, including three SVC Plus advanced STATCOMs, as well as supplying three offshore substation platform topsides for the project.