NKT awarded €1.2 B cable contract
The deal is worth about €1.2 billion.
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Germany, Dortmund: By awarding the contract to the Danish company NKT, Amprion has secured cable capacities for the HVDC connection Korridor B and an important section of the EnLAG 14 line project. The total volume of the contracts is about €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion).
The order comprises ±525 kV HVDC cables for project 48 of the direct current project Korridor B. The project, with a route length of around 430 km, provides for an underground cable connection between the Heide West substation in Schleswig-Holstein and Polsum in North Rhine-Westphalia. NKT was also commissioned with the cables for the approximately 10 km long partial underground cabling section of the EnLAG 14 line project, the Rhine crossing between Voerde and Rheinberg.
Korridor B will transport electricity from the North Sea coast to North Rhine-Westphalia from the beginning of the 2030s. It consists of the two-line construction projects 48 (Heide/West-Polsum) and 49 (Wilhelmshaven – Hamm), both of which will transmit a capacity of 2 GW, corresponding to the electricity requirements of around four million people.
The Rhine crossing is part of EnLAG project 14, grid reinforcement between Wesel and Osterath near Düsseldorf. It aims to transport energy at 380 and 110 kV levels. The section between Voerde and Rheinberg was designed as an underground cable pilot project by the legislator in 2015. This section is planned by Amprion as a combination of two short overhead line sections and one underground cable section, and the associated transfer stations.
Source: Amprion