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Prysmian will develop two new submarine power interconnections between islands in Canarias and Spain mainland and Ceuta in North Africa
Prysmian Group , a world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry , has been awarded two contracts worth approximately € 250 million by Red Eléctrica ( Red Eléctrica de España , S . A . U .), the Transmission System Operator of the Spanish power grid , for the development of two projects : a submarine power interconnection between the islands of Tenerife and La Gomeraa and another submarine power interconnection between the Spanish mainland and Ceuta ( a Spanish city on the north coast of Africa ).
Prysmian will provide its comprehensive turnkey approach for the design , supply , installation and commissioning of the technological challenge of a 66KV HVAC ( High Voltage Alternating Current ) double circuit , three-core submarine power cable with EPR insulation and synthetic-wire armouring , to connect Tenerife and La Gomera at the world record depth of nearly 1150m for a 66KV threecore cable and additionally a 132KV HVAC double circuit , three-core submarine power cable with XLPE insulation and synthetic-wire armouring , to connect the Spanish mainland and Ceuta through the Strait of Gibraltar with maximum depths of 900m .
Both systems comprise 90km of submarine route and approximately 11km of land route for the double link between Spanish mainland and Ceuta .
The submarine cables will be manufactured in Norderham Plant ( Germany ) and Pikkala Plant ( Finland ), two of the group ’ s centres of technological and manufacturing excellence for submarine cables . The land cables will be produced in the group ’ s local plant of Vilanova ( Spain ).
Marine operations will be performed with one of Prysmian ’ s own cable-laying vessels ( Giulio Verne ). The commissioning of both cable systems is scheduled for 2025 .
“ This award confirms the mutual trust and long-standing relationship between Red Eléctrica and Prysmian Group , because it is the latest of several projects developed together in Spain to enhance the national power grid ’ s reliability ,” said Hakan Ozmen , EVP Projects BU , Prysmian Group .
“ We are proud to support Spain in meeting its Energy Transition goals by 2030 , providing our state-of-the-art submarine and land cable systems .” p
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