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The connection between the substations
in Baixas, near Perpignan in France, and
Santa Llogaia, near Figueres, in Spain,
is the highest-power rated and highest-
voltage land extruded High Voltage
Direct Current cable system readied for
commercial operation by Prysmian Group.
The milestone underground
cable system
interconnecting
France and Spain
represents
the completion of a project
awarded to Prysmian at the
end of 2010 by a joint venture
between the Spanish grid
operator, Red Electrica de España, and the
French Réseau deTransport d’Électricité.
The contract was worth a total of more
than €90 million.
A milestone, record-setting
France-Spain power link
completed after almost five
years of work by Prysmian.
The project comprises a ± 320kV extruded
HVDC underground cable turnkey system
that includes the engineering, production
and installation of two 1,000MW bipolar
circuits along a 64km land route, of which
8.6km is in a purpose-built tunnel across
the Pyrenees. A total of 252km of cables
were
manufactured
in
Gron, France, at one of the
Group’s excellence centres
for
Extra
High
Voltage
cables,
using
specially
upgraded production lines
and
handling
systems
that allowed the production of very long
cable lengths. This allowed a substantial
reduction in the overall project execution
time and risks.
Across the Pyrenees
GETTING THINGS DONE
252 km
of cables manufactured
in Gron, France
