General Cable offers a broad range of renewable energy products ideal for the on-shore and offshore wind market. Onshore products included nacelle cables, which are engineered to withstand the flexing and vibrations typically experienced in the rigorous environment where the controls for the turbine are held; custom cable assemblies that meet customer specifications and offer ease of installation; tower cables, both copper and aluminum constructions, which provide cabling solutions for flexible and static vertical applications within the tower; insulated and bare grounding products that meet tower and system grounding requirements; high-dielectric-strength, low-dielectric-loss, underground collection system cables that provide efficient transmission of power to the substation for distribution; substation and transmission overhead and underground transmission conductors and cables that deliver power from the substation to the power grid; and a full range of fiber optic Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system cables, which offer monitoring and operational networks for wind farms.

For the offshore wind market, NSW, our wholly-owned subsidiary with its many years of experience in submarine and offshore cables, offers significant expertise to satisfy the challenging requirements of cabling wind farms, from research and project planning to manufacturing and consulting.

As a benchmark in the wire and cable industry, renowned for our engineering and material development capabilities, General Cable is positioned to rapidly respond to the needs of the evolving wind farm market with next-generation cable systems.