Milan, 23 February 2017 – Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a new important contract – in consortium with the leading international infrastructure group Balfour Beatty – for the realisation of a new High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) interconnector between France and the UK through the Channel Tunnel.
The project is one of the European Commission’s Projects of Common Interest and was awarded by ElecLink, a wholly owned subsidiary of Groupe Eurotunnel, that will build an interconnector through the Channel Tunnel to provide a power transmission link between the UK and France with a capacity of a 1000 MW in either direction of flow for a total project value for the consortium of approximately € 219 million. The share of Prysmian that will coordinate the design, supply, installation and commissioning of the interconnection is about € 79 million.
All cables will be manufactured in Prysmian’s plant located in Gron (France) one of the Group’s excellence centres for EHV cables, both AC and DC.
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