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Prysmian Group Insight
DOING BUSINESS
Prysmian Group has been awarded
a contract for the first-ever power
link to connect the island of Capri to
mainland Italy, as part of a project
aimed at strengthening the entire
power system of the celebrated
resort island, while making it safer
and cost-effective. The contract,
worth approximately
€
70 million, for
by Terna Rete Italia, a company
fully owned by Terna, the Italian
Transmission System Operator.
The link is part of a wider-
reaching project planned
by Terna and known as
’ProgettoInsula’, to connect
the main Italian islands
- Sardinia, Sicily, Elba,
the islands of the Gulf
of Naples, the Venetian
Lagoon – to mainland Italy.
The project involves the supply
and installation of a High Voltage
Alternate Current (HVAC) 150kV
power cable connection comprising
30km submarine route and of 1km
of land cable, running from the
mainland to Terna’s innovative power
station with low environmental
impact and sustainable design
criteria located in Capri’s Gasto
Ecological Island. The cables for the
Capri link will be manufactured in
Prysmian Group has developed a
96-fibre
another
extension of the company’s wide
range of ‘Nano’ loose tube cables
for microduct applications, which
surpasses the requirements of the
emerging IEC 60794-5-10 standard.
This optical fibre cable contains
strands of optically pure glass that
carry digital information over long
distances in environments such as
the Arco Felice plant in Naples, the
Group’s centre of technological and
manufacturing excellence. Marine
cable laying will be performed by the
Group’s owned ‘Giulio Verne’ vessel.
Completion of the project is due by
2015. Once again Prysmian Group
was involved in the fulfilment of an
infrastructure of such great strategic
and environmental importance,
further confirming its leading role in
the development of interconnections
for increasingly efficient and
sustainable power transmission grids.
The project will help increase the
reliability and security of the power
resources of the island with the
goal of minimising risks of blackout,
mostly during the summer period
when tourism, and therefore also
power consumption, sharply increase.
the internet, telephone systems and
digital TV, essentially ‘lighting’ our
digital world. Prysmian’s new 96-fibre
cable is less than 6mm in diameter.
Developed under the project name
‘NEWT™’ (Nano Extended Wavelength
Technology), Prysmian engineers
have succeeded in designing and
testing a cable beyond the current
limits of existing standards, which
normally require characterisation at
a wavelength of 1550nm.
The first-ever submarine power link to Capri
New 96 fibre microduct cable
A milestone project of Prysmian Group that will allow reduction of CO
2
emissions
Prysmian Group has successfully
tested the first electrical system that
includes High Voltage
the
high-performance eco-sustainable
cable for electrical grids. The
150kV-5km link constructed near
Milan, Italy, and owned by Terna
SpA, is a fundamental step in the
reorganisation of the high voltage
transmission grid in the area. Made
with recyclable materials, P-Laser
helps reduce the environmental
impact of grids while increasing
their efficiency and capacity. High
Voltage P-Laser maintains the same
properties of efficiency, compatibility
can
operate at temperatures above the
90°C of traditional XLPE technology,
while materials used for the protective
sheath, the metal conductor and
the outer cable screens are fully
recyclable. Thanks to P-Laser,
Prysmian Group is even more
engaged in partnering with utilities in
upgrading their grids while reducing
the environmental impact.
P-Laser:
eco-sustainable
HV Grid
