Nexans has signed the largest in its history contract

The company Nexans set up 2 records when it signed its last contract of delivery of underwater power cables. The contract provides for a working out, manufacture, laying of and wiring of two 525 kV cable subsystems of a total length of 700 km at the coast of Norway and Denmark. This contract is a large one ever signed by Nexans because of the volume and cost.

As it is said in a press-release, the order of more than half a billiard euro is intended for the project of building of high-voltage lines of direct current NordLink between Norway and Germany. The start of the production of cables for this project is going to be in 2016 at a plant in Halden in Norway and the end of deliveries in 2019. The project of the creation of a 1400 MVt system NordLink VSC (Volage Source converter is a converter of voltage supply) HVDC (of high-voltage of direct current) is realized as a result of the collaboration of the companies Statnett and Tenne T with the participation of the German bank KfW and it also provides for the unification of electric power markets of Norway and Germany with the aim of exchange of “green power”.

Excess volumes of energy produced with wind and sun sources in Germany can be exported to Norway. And vice-a-verse, electric power produced with hydro electric plants in Norway will be exported to Germany. Such an agreement is an important contribution to the future development of energy which is friendly to the environment.

The company Nexans will work out and produce high-voltage cables of direct current saturated with viscous compound (MIND), which are intended for the laying at a depth of 450 meters at the coast of Norway and Denmark. The cables will be laid with the help of Nexans's wire-laying vessel c/s Nexans Skagerrak. At the sea depth the cables will be protected with the way of laying into a trench dug with the help of a system Capjet of the company Nezans. Power cables for this project will have such a reliable construction as successfully used cables in the projects Skagerrak 1,2,3 and a recent one Skagerrak 4 (a 140 km underwater system of high-voltage supply of direct current between Norway and Denmark).

According to the words of Mr Dirk Steinbrink (the vice-president of Nexans), this largest in the company's history project (from the point of view of the length of underwater power cables and the cost) is also one confirmation of of a high level of technological solutions in the field of underwater cable systems. The project NordLink is a further step on the way of full integration of a European electric power system.