By Pierre Bertrand
Siemens Power AG on Tuesday mentioned that it’ll present high-voltage direct present transmission know-how to assist join the Italian islands of Sardinia and Sicily with mainland Italy.
The German vitality firm mentioned its order quantity quantities to simply beneath 1 billion euro ($1.08 billion) for work on a 970 kilometer-long energy…
By Pierre Bertrand
Siemens Power AG on Tuesday mentioned that it’ll present high-voltage direct present transmission know-how to assist join the Italian islands of Sardinia and Sicily with mainland Italy.
The German vitality firm mentioned its order quantity quantities to simply beneath 1 billion euro ($1.08 billion) for work on a 970 kilometer-long energy hyperlink.
Italy’s transmission system operator, Terna, awarded the contract to a consortium of Siemens Power and Italy’s Fata to provide 4 converter stations as a part of the Tyrrhenian hyperlink challenge, Siemens Power mentioned.
The hyperlink will allow extra environment friendly use of renewable vitality and improve the steadiness of the ability grid. It’s going to additionally enable for the closure of some coal-fired energy crops on the islands of Sardinia and Sicily, Siemens Power mentioned.
The Tyrrhenian hyperlink challenge is the primary of its form for Siemens Power, it mentioned. One of many challenge’s sections will join Campania on the Italian mainland with Sicily whereas the opposite will join Sicily with Sardinia by way of undersea cables, the corporate mentioned.
The completion of the development of the converter stations is scheduled for the top of 2028, it mentioned.
Write to Pierre Bertrand at [email protected]
Corrections & Amplifications
This text was corrected at 0857 GMT to make clear Siemens Power mentioned the Tyrrhenian Hyperlink challenge will allow the closure of some coal-fired energy crops on the islands of Sardinia and Sicily. The unique article incorrectly mentioned the challenge will allow the closure of two such crops.
