wiredinUSA October 2015

Solar growth for India

Heavy armor deal

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.

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.

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