Europe | August 25, 2014

Alstom to increase energy highways with €800 million ($1.06 billion) of HVDC contracts

France, Levallois-Perret: Alstom Grid has won three major HVDC contracts with a total value of €800 million ($105.6 million). The HVDC projects will build energy highways for bulk power transmission in India, bring power into the heart of a South Korean city, and integrate renewable energy resources in Atlantic Canada.

 

France, Levallois-Perret: Alstom Grid has won three major HVDC contracts with a total value of €800 million ($1.06 billion). The HVDC projects will build energy highways for bulk power transmission in India, bring power into the heart of a South Korean city, and integrate renewable energy resources in Atlantic Canada.

Alstom has been awarded a HVDC Line Commutated Converter (LCC) project through its joint venture, KEPCO-Alstom Power Electronics Systems (KAPES), to design and supply power transformers for a 33 km energy corridor in Seoul region.

South Korea faces an ambitious challenge to meet the 25% increase in electricity demand in the last decade alone.

“Alstom is proud to contribute to Korea’s growing power economy. This project is the fruit of the joint venture and co-development efforts between KEPCO and Alstom; it will increase Alstom’s HVDC presence in Asia, and KEPCO will benefit from Alstom’s industry-leading HVDC technologies and expertise from around the world.” said Patrick Plas, Senior Vice President Grid Power Electronics and Automation at Alstom.

Nalcor Energy awarded Alstom a ±350 kV bi-pole HVDC (LCC) turnkey contract to design, supply, and install a point-to-point HVDC solution for the Labrador-Island Transmission Link, with the following features: two LCC stations, near Muskrat Falls and Soldiers Pond near St. John’s, to convert alternating current into direct current, and vice-versa, and two cable compounds on both shores of the Strait of Belle Isle to connect submarine cables crossing the strait to the onshore overhead transmission lines.

“We are delighted to work with Alstom on the development of the Muskrat Falls Project. This project will be a valuable power-producing asset for decades.” said Gilbert Bennett, Vice President, Nalcor Energy Lower Churchill Project.

Following the contract win of the first phase of ±800 kV 3000 MW Ultra-High Voltage Direct Current (UHVDC) from Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) in 2012, Alstom has been awarded the second phase to this large project, connecting Champa to Kurukshetra via ±800 kV 3000 MW UHVDC. With these two phases, Alstom’s UHVDC system will manage bulk power transfer of 6000 MW at ±800 kV DC from the generation centre in central region to the load centre in the northern region of the country, creating an “energy highway” of efficient power.

Source: Alstom
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