Prysmian secures a USD 175 million contract for the development of
the new strategic “Hudson Project” submarine power link in New York City
It will take power for 660 MW, also from renewable sources, to the heart of
Manhattan
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.
The Hudson Project is of strategic importance for the City of New York where energy load is
constantly increasing. It will help replace resources that may be retired over the next several
years as well as strengthen the overall reliability of the power supply system in NYC as a
long-term infrastructure asset. Upon completion, the Hudson Project is expected to
provide New York City customers access to more diverse sources of power, including
renewable sources and natural gas.
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. The Prysmian US content in the project will be
completed by the supply and installation of land fiber cables produced in the Lexington Fiber Optic
cabling facility. In New York City
the underground cable system will be installed under City streets for approximately 0.4
miles to the ConEd West 49th Street substation.
When complete, the Hudson Project will be the second major power transmission infrastructure
project built by Prysmian in the New York and New Jersey areas in recent years, following the 2007
completion of the 500 kV
Neptune project. In the US, also, last year, Prysmian completed successfully the
construction of the
Trans Bay Cable project, a 200 kV HVDC submarine power link between the cities of
Pittsburg, CA and San Francisco.
North America represents one of the main markets for the Group. The Abbeville
state-of-the-art plant completed in 2009 - first facility for the production of Extra High Voltage
cables in North America – will allow Prysmian to support the major public utilities in the country
to develop and upgrade their power grids.
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Project
Neptune Video
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technology
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Bay power link
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Submarine Energy Systems
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