Giant transformer begins 1,000-mile trip to Sweden
The transformer is 5.5 m long, 3.7 m wide and 4 m tall and it headed to Liverpool before it got shipped to Scandinavia as part of a £190 million contract for the power giant Svenska Kraftnät which is supplying new transformers to link up parts of the Swedish electricity grid.
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A 205-tonne transformer left Stafford, UK and brought roads to a standstill as it started a 1,000-mile journey to Sweden.
The transformer is 5.5 m long, 3.7 m wide and 4 m tall and it headed to Liverpool before it got shipped to Scandinavia as part of a £190 million contract for the power giant Svenska Kraftnät which is supplying new transformers to link up parts of the Swedish electricity grid.
The aim is to connect Barkeryd in central Sweden to Hurva in the south using High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) technology. The connection project should be completed at the end of 2014.
The load set off from Alstom yesterday and went up the A34 to Stone. Then it joined the M6. It is the ninth to be supplied by workers in Stafford as part of the project.
Alstom Grid’s HVDC MaxSineTM Voltage Source Converter (VSC) technology will be used in the project and Alstom will supply HVDC converter stations at both ends, as well as control and protection, converter transformers, construction and project management.
The HVDC Centre of Excellence in Stafford is the main Alstom centre involved in the project.
Alstom spokesman Jonathan Smith said: “Our Stafford site is a world leader in this sort of technology and the only place in the country where transformers are built.
“We are supplying transformers all over the world to places such as Brazil and India, as well as here in the UK.”
Source: Express & Star
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