Grid Connection

OVERVIEW

We supply complete systems with cable connections both to and from islands and within island groups to the most remote locations so that energy can be supplied with the electricity grids on the mainland.

What really sets us apart is that we offer a comprehensive and fully managed EPCI service. From design and engineering to production and complete turnkey installation, our complete value chain covers the entire project management and many aspects beyond where our customers have a single point of contact where they can always go for all their project needs.

We are a single-source supplier that offers complete EPCI turnkey cable system solutions that meet the requirements of our customers.


We ensure that people in isolated places can benefit from a secure energy supply through connection to the national grid system and we also offer various other advantages.

In line with our commitment to sustainability, our groundbreaking connections to electricity grids ensure energy supply with less impact on the environment. By supplying energy from the mainland to locations where energy would otherwise have to be generated locally, for example with the construction of a power plant, we prevent the impact on the local environment. Through access to onshore power grids and large-scale power generation with fixed lower energy prices, utilities can provide customers with direct economic benefit.

Such connections can open up opportunities for local economic development by allowing energy generated locally, for example by wind, wave, tidal or solar power plants, on the island itself or with other structures and platforms, on land or offshore, to be linked to the national energy network, facilitating the crossing of creeks and rivers to the final connection points of the onshore grid.

Prysmian in action

We have contributed to a number of prestigious grid connection development projects worldwide, including:

The first submarine electricity connection between Capri and Naples, which reduces CO emissions2  is reduced by about 130,000 tonnes per year.
The construction and execution of a submarine power cable connection between Phu Quoc and Vietnam - Asia's longest submarine cable system to date.
Design, supply and installation of a deepwater HVAC (high voltage AC) cable system between Syros (Cyclades) and Lavrion in Greece.
Engineering, production, installation and commissioning of two 380 kV AC cable circuits between the power plants of Sicily and Calabria.