Prysmian has produced the first 20 km of underground cable for the SuedOstLink, in Germany.
The cables have been manufactured according to international standards and customer specifications of the Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT TSO.
To verify this an enhanced factory acceptance test has successfully been performed.
The first lots of cables – a total of nine drums, each with 1750 metres of underground cable and weighing 83 tonnes each are being transported to an intermediate storage area.
Prysmian will produce a total of around 550 km of underground cable for TenneT for an approximately 270 km-long section of the SuedOstLink (starting at the Southern Germany connection point at Isar, close to Landshut in Bavaria).
For this project two HVDC underground cables will be laid in one trench.