Prysmian Offshore Specialties develops subsea cables for electrical and digital interconnection projects in Pará (Brazil)

The Company, from its Center of Excellence, headed in Vila Velha Brasil, for the end to end design, production and testing of Subsea Power Hybrid Umbilical, will supply cables for the interconnection projects in the Belém and Tapajós River regions

Those interconnection projects are part of a programme by Equatorial Pará that aims to expand the supply of electricity and telecommunication networks in the state of Pará, where some cities and towns still depend on thermoelectric plants (UTES) and do not have regular access to broadband Internet.

Aveiro project

Equatorial Pará started the interconnection of approximately 5 km linking the city of Aveiro to the district of Daniel Carvalho, including 3 km across the Tapajós River.

For this project, Prysmian Offshore Specialties developed a cable that combines power transmission (35 kV) with data transmission (optical fibres) to interconnect the opposite banks of the Tapajós and that is to be laid on the riverbed at a depth of about two meters. In addition to cable manufacturing, Prysmian is also monitoring the cable-laying process in the Tapajós,

The crossing is the first of the three phases of the project that aims to interconnect Aveiro to the National Interconnected System (SIN), quadrupling not only the current power capacity, but also enabling to discontinue the UTES that currently supplies the city.

Icoaraci project

Additionally, Equatorial Pará started the 11.7 km interconnection project between the district of Icoaraci, close to Belém, and Cotijuba Island, with the objective to connect Cotijuba to the SIN and quadruple the energy currently available on the island, where more than 4,000 people live, and thus attract and stimulate investments in the region.

The first phase consisted of the 5.2 km submarine connection between the district of Icoaraci and Cotijuba Island.

Prysmian Offshore Specialties developed a cable similar to the one used in the Aveiro project, combining power and data transmission.

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Prysmian Offshore Specialties develops subsea cables for electrical and digital interconnection projects in Pará (Brazil)