Italy Prysmian Sets Tender

Prysmian Group worldwide leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry has fully set up its organisation for the development of the three strategic German power transmission HVDC High Voltage Direct Current cable projects SuedOstLink SuedLink and A-Nord and its ready now to launch the cable production.Prysmian was awarded the contracts respectively by Tennet Transnet and Amprion in 2020 and is the only cable manufacturer involved in all three German HVDC cable projects. The project scope for Prysmian is to provide its innovative and eco-friendly cable technologies to transport the clean energy generated by the wind farms off the northern shores of Germany to the highly industrialised southern regions of the country. With the aim of supporting projects execution Prysmian opened 3 new regional offices in Bayreuth Wrzburg and Wuppertal and set up a multicultural project development and management team of over 200 employees. The team is led by Alberto Boffelli COO Project BU and Heiko Dirks Project and Contract Manager for the 3 projects.In Germany Prysmian is already the leading cable supplier of energy utilities companies with approximately 1900 employees 6 manufacturing plants in Nordenham Schwerin Berlin Neustadt bei Coburg Nuremburg and Wuppertal and 4 RD centres. Among the most relevant offshore wind farms projects realized by the Group BorWin2 BorWin3 DolWin3 HelWin1 HelWin2 and SylWin1 and Dolwin 5 currently under construction.In executing German HVDC cable projects we put sustainability and safety at the forefront through the entire life cycle of every product and all operations from procurement of raw materials to the delivery of the finished project commented Hakan Ozmen EVP Projects BU.The production of the SuedOstLink HVDC cable system is ready to be launched. The system successfully passed the type test for the client TenneT TSO GmbH meeting all the most stringent testing criteria specified by the international standards. During the 4-month testing programme the cable system was examined to prove its mechanical robustness and electrical performance as well as the water resistance of its components. Prysmian will provide a 525 kV HVDC P-Laser underground cable system running on a route of 270 km starting at the Southern Germany connection point at Isar close to Landshut in Bavaria. This solution offers a power transmission capacity of over 2 GW on a single system for the first time. The P-Laser cable technology developed by Prysmian is the first 100 recyclable environmentally friendly high-performance insulation technology based on HPTE High Performance Thermoplastic Elastomer which cuts CO2 emissions in production by 30.Sustainability is at the core of all Prysmian operation and organisation. Prysmian has set a clear Climate Change Ambition and specific targets to accelerate the race to net-zero by 2040 and has announced its new Social Ambition targets to be reached by 2030 to further confirmed its commitment to being a global sustainability leader.