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ABB will provide plant electrification,
automation and substation solutions for
solar power plants in India. Spread across
the southern Indian states of Karnataka,
Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, the
projects will connect over 850MW of solar
energy to the grid, and will be among the
biggest solar projects worldwide.
Themost significant of these projects, placed
by the diversified Indian multinational
Adani Group, is the 648MW solar plant in
Kamuthi, Tamil Nadu. ABB will provide a
turnkey solution encompassing the design,
supply, installation and commissioning
of the power plant electrification and
automation systems, the pooling stations
and multiple substations. This includes
two 230kV and three 110kV substations to
connect the electricity generated to the
local grid.
India has approximately 300 clear, sunny
days in a year, giving a theoretical on-land
solar power reception of around 5,000
trillion kilowatt hours per year. Even with
a PV module efficiency as low as ten
percent, this represents a thousand times
the domestic electricity demand projected
for 2015.
Solar growth for India
Hexatronic Cables & Interconnect
Systems has secured a contract with
A-2-Sea Solutions Ltd, a privately owned
British-based company that installs and
maintains subsea cable for some of the
biggest operators in the market.
Hexatronic will supply approximately
20km of rock armored submarine ribbon
cable for the Isle of Wight to Portsmouth
installation project. The three-layer
armored cable is designed to withstand
the demanding undersea conditions.
A-2-Sea Solutions is a global submarine
installer within the fiber optic subsea
and subaqueous industries, utilizing
its own land, beach and marine joint
technology. Hexatronic offers solutions for
submarine cables and the entire passive
fiber infrastructure including design,
manufacturing and supply.
“The contract with A-2-Sea Solutions is
important for Hexatronic as we break into
a newmarket with our comprehensiveand
future-proof submarine cable solutions.
This agreement strengthens Hexatronic’s
global presence in the subsea telecom
cables industry,” said Henrik Larsson Lyon,
CEO of Hexatronic Group AB.
Heavy armor deal