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Prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

Data link for Crimea

Prysmian Group has a new contract with Statnett SF and National Grid NSN Link, a project specific subsidiary of National Grid. Prysmian will provide an HVDC submarine interconnector between Norway and the UK. The NSN Link will be the first power cable system to connect the UK and Norway and will enable power trading between the two countries. It will be an important part of the Europeangridreinforcement strategy,aimed at reducing electricity prices, providing cleaner energy, and to compensate for the supply from ageing generation plants in the UK that are to be taken out of service. The overall project will set a new record as the longest HVDC subsea cable link ever installed, following a route of about 740km in length between the converter stations in Kvilldal in Norway and Blyth in the UK. The contract is for the supply and installation of a total of around 950km of submarine and land cables in two sections (over 470km route length in total) of the overall NSN Link route length. The cables will be produced in the Arco Felice factory, and marine cable layingwill beperformedby thegroup’s Giulio Verne cable laying vessel. Delivery and commissioning of the system is scheduled for September 2021. European power sharing

The Russian government is to build an underwater fiber optic communication line from the Taman Peninsula, under the Kerch Strait to the Crimean Peninsula. The corresponding decree has been signed by prime minister Dmitry Medvedev and posted on the Russian government’s website. The project will be implemented under thestateprogramof socio-economic development of the Crimean federal district until 2020. The line will have a capacity in excess of 200Gbit/s. Taking this into account, by 2018 the capacity of the channels ensuring operation of the Crimean federal district’s communication networks within Russia’s single telecommunications network will reach at least 310Gbit/s. This will make it possible to create increased capacity communication channels in Crimea for ensuring the development of broadband Internet access, telephone and television on the peninsula. The shallow (below 10m) 4.5km-wide Kerch Strait separates Crimea from the Taman Peninsula, and is used by up to a hundred vessels per day.

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