24 May, 2011

Prysmian Cables & Systems has been awarded a contract worth in excess of $ 175 million by Hudson Transmission Partners, LLC, for the development of a new strategic underground and submarine power link between New York City and the New Jersey transmission grid as part of a larger contract awarded to the consortium of Prysmian and Siemens Energy.

Prysmian will be responsible for the design, supply and installation of a 345 kV High Voltage Alternate Current (HVAC) land and submarine transmission line that will run along a total route of approximately 7.5 miles (13 km) to transfer 660 MW of existing power from the transmission grid in Ridgefield, New Jersey to New York City. Siemens will build the back-to-back converter station located in Ridgefield, NJ. Completion of the project is expected to occur during the third quarter of 2013.

Prysmian will install a bundle of three high voltage submarine cables and two optical fiber data transmission cables under a portion of the Hudson River using its own cable-laying ship, the Giulio Verne. The submarine cable system will be buried in bundle below the river bottom at depths ranging from 10 to 15 feet using the Prysmian’s designed hydro-plow machine. The submarine cables will be produced at Prysmian’s Arco Felice, Italy plant.

The majority of the high voltage land cables will be produced at Prysmian’s new state-of-the-art VCV factory in Abbeville, South Carolina and will be installed by Prysmian’s installation services group located in New Jersey.