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Visiongain’s latest report calculates the global HVDC
transmission market will be worth $30.06 billion in 2016.
The report addresses the development of the HVDC transmission
market, placing analyses and data by geography, application,
technology, configuration, component, distance and cabling type.
Visiongain anticipates the circuit-breaker as the necessary
enabler for the realisation of the supergrid; this will facilitate
greater investment beyond the forecast period.
Regionally, spending is much more volatile; different trends,
regulatory environments, stages of electrical grid development,
political priorities and distributions of fossil and non-fossil fuel
resources are influencing the authorisation and construction of
HVDC projects.
Within the Asian market, the Chinese submarket dominates, and
its HVDC projects will underpin the entire HVDC transmission
market for the next five years. The second half of the forecast
period will be characterised by projects in Europe and
transformation of power systems in emerging economies.
The report contains tables of 101 proposed, at date of
publication, HVDC transmission projects. Data is broken down by
application (connection to remote generation, power sharing/
exchange, long-distance transmission and upgrade projects: grid
robustness); by component (transmission lines and convertor
stations); by technology (line commutated and voltage source
converters; UHVDC and HVDC); by configuration (monopolar,
bipolar, back-to-back (B2B) and multi-terminal); by distance;
and by cabling type (overground, underground, subsea and
combination).
Profiles of leading HVDC transmission component and cable
suppliers are also included, with details of market share, key
projects and future outlook.
Visiongain – UK
Website:
HVDC market to hit $30bn value this year
Aloha to cable
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks has signed a turnkey
agreement with Bluesky Pacific’s subsidiary, Amper SA, for a
9,700km submarine cable system across the Pacific Ocean.
The Moana Cable will link New Zealand and Hawaii when
completed in 2018; the second 1,700km segment, based on one
fibre pair, will link the Cook Islands to the Samoa hub.
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks – France
Website:
Amper SA – Spain Website: