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Prysmian Group Insight
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london
– UK Prime Minister
David Cameron opened the
new High Voltage testing
laboratory at Prysmian Group’s
Eastleigh manufacturing plant.
The laboratory will be a central
resource for Prysmian’s worldwide
manufacturing of High Voltage power
transmission cable as it typically
tests Extra High Voltage cable to
1m volts and is the only facility
of its kind in the UK. Mr Cameron
expressed his support by stating:
“We need to rebalance our economy
between the public and private
sector. Companies like Prysmian
Group, investing and growing in the
UK, are key to our success.”
NICE
– The Group was Gold
Sponsor to the 3rd Smart
Grids, Smart Cities Forum.
The conference brought together
experts from both public and private
sectors to discuss the initiatives,
successful implementations and the
future outlook for Smart Cities 2013
and beyond. The Group presented
its offer for the smart grids, which
includes solutions for risk prevention,
smart maintenance, electrical load
management and environmental
impact. Prysmian Group has
developed a comprehensive range of
state-of-the-art cables and solutions
to make smart grids more reliable
and efficient, by guaranteeing their
proper operation in all conditions and
circumstances and preventing possible
blackouts, failures and damage to
other network components.
canberra
– Prysmian
Group has already supplied over
1 million kilometres of ribbon
fibre
for the National Broadband
Network project in Australia. The
historic landmark was achieved early
in 2013 and was welcomed in the
country as a milestone. The millionth
kilometre was processed at the Dee
Why facility. As the first milestone
has been achieved, Prysmian now
looks forward to tripling that volume
in the coming months. In the
Sydney suburb of Blacktown, a high
capacity 576 fibre cable was being
installed for the National Broadband
Network. Prysmian Group’s fibre
cables will enable over 16,000
homes and businesses in the area to
access high-speed broadband by the
end of 2013.
dubai
– Prysmian Group
showcased at MEE 2013, the
electrical largest show in the
Middle East.
The event came at a
very important time for the Group to
further reinforce its already strong
presence in the Middle East, a key
area for its expansion strategy, as
the Group is already carrying
out several strategic power cable
projects in the region, especially in
the Extra High Voltage underground
and submarine cable systems
market. The Group’s product
portfolio at MEE 2013 focused on
the full range of state-of-the-art
power cables, including HV and EHV
underground and submarine cable
systems for applications such as
interconnections between power
grids, links between natural or
artificial islands and the mainland,
and connections to, or between,
offshore oil production and wind
power generation facilities.
BEIJING
– Prysmian Group has
supplied Huaneng Group with
630km of Medium Voltage and
Low Voltage cables
for its new
Integrated Gasification Combined
Cycle (IGCC) power plant in Tianjin,
the first of its kind in China. The
Prysmian contract accounted for
about 70% of all the cables used
in the new plant. All the cables
comply with national standards for
the A– class and with power station
technical requirements. IGCC is a
technology that uses a gasifier to
turn coal and other carbon-based
fuels into gas, known as synthesis
gas (syngas). It then removes
impurities from the syngas before it
is combusted.
BRUSSELS
– Prysmian Group
attended and strongly supported
‘Supergrid 2013’
the second
edition of the annual conference of
‘Friends of the Supergrid’ (FOSG)
that took place in Brussels. This
conference aimed at continuing
the progressive discussion of the
backbone of Europe’s decarbonised
power sector. Its purpose was to
restate the importance of creating
a European grid network capable
of capturing the large amounts of
renewable energy which will help
reduce consumers bills, enable
the delivery of 2020 targets and
beyond, and enhance Europe’s
energy security and independence.
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