Nexans has been awarded a €1.43bn turnkey contract for the delivery of part of the EuroAsia Interconnector project. The company will be responsible for building a 525kV high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable that will connect Greece and Cyprus.
The stretch, which will feature a bi-pole length of 2x900km, will traverse the Mediterranean Sea floor at depths of over 3,000 metres. The cables will be manufactured at Nexans' facilities Halden, Norway, and Futtsu, Japan, and will be installed by the cable-laying vessels Nexans Aurora and Nexans Skagerrak.
The EuroAsia Interconnector project as a whole intends to interconnect the grids of Greece, Israel, and Cyprus, carrying up to 2,000MW in either direction. Full operations are expected in 2029.
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