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Italy : PRYSMIAN GROUP secures subsea cables contract
Publish Date : 21-Jul-2015
An energy and telecom cable systems industry company, Prysmian Group, has won a new contract from Jersey Electricity Plc for the Normandie 1 project to provide electricity to Jersey in the Channel Islands from the French mainland.
Mainly the project features the turnkey supply and installation of a High Voltage Alternate Current (HVAC) cable connection from France (Surville) to Jersey (Archirondel) including 28 km of 90 kV 3-core cable in a single length along with associated network components and specialist jointing works.
Prysmian will be responsible to provide design, supply and commissioning of the submarine and land cable connections under a larger contract worth around €28 million, awarded to the consortium between Prysmian and VBMS; VBMS will take up the marine cable laying operations, including protection and landfall activities.
The submarine cable will be replacing the existing obsolete Normandie 1 interconnector. Its 100 MW capacity is to be jointly shared by both Jersey and Guernsey islands under the CIEG (Channel Islands Electricity Grid) partnership agreement, the vehicle through which the local utilities procure power from EDF in France.
Production of the submarine cables for the Normandie 1 link will be done at the Arco Felice plant (Italy), the Group's centre of technological and manufacturing excellence.
Completion of the project is scheduled in October 2016.
