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NEWS In brief... Nexans wins €72.7m Gulf cable contract Incap and ABB sign a supply contract Incap Corporation and ABB Oy, Machines have signed a supply contract for the manufacture of rotor components. According to the contract Incap will deliver ABB rotor components of electrical motors and generators, which are used in the power generation and in renewable energy sectors. Dewey Electronics wins US$4.5m order for 2kW Tactical Generators The Dewey Electronics Corporation won a delivery order for its 2kW diesel operated Military Tactical Generators (MTG) worth US$4.5m. This order was made under the 10 year indefinitedelivery/indefinite quantity contract awarded in September 2001 by the U.S. Army, CECOM, Ft. Monmouth, NJ. Both the AC and DC versions of the generator are currently being shipped and supplies will continue for approximately one year. The 2kW diesel- operated MTG is used throughout the US Department of Defense, with over 14,000 fielded by Dewey since 1996. Chile’s power project Chilean hydropower company, HydroChile, plans to invest US$8.7m (€7.2m) in a power transmission project in the O'Higgins region. The project includes the installation of a 110 kV line of 20.6 km (12.8 miles), a 220 kV line of 150 m (492 ft) and a power substation to connect HydroChile's future San Andres run-of-river power plant to the existing power transmission network. Nexans, a worldwide leader in the cable industry, has been awarded a €72.7m contract by the Abu Dhabi Transmission and Despatch Company (TRANSCO) for a turnkey project to upgrade the high voltage underground power cable infrastructure in Abu Dhabi City, UAE. The project for TRANSCO, a Prysmian wins Borwin2 contract Prysmian, a worldwide leading player in the energy and telecomcables industry, has been awarded a major project worth €200m by the German transmission system operator transpower - a subsidiary of the Dutch grid operator TenneT. The contract is for the grid connection project BorWin2 linking two offshore wind farms in the North Sea to mainland Germany. Prysmian will provide complete supply, installation and commissioning of the submarine and land cable connections as part of a larger contract worth more than half a billion Euros, awarded to the consortium between Prysmian and Siemens subsidiary of ADWEA (Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Authority), will involve the design, manufacture, supply, installation and commissioning of 210 km of 132 kV XLPE (cross linked polyethylene) underground power cables. Single-phase cables will have copper cross-sections of Energy. Siemens will deliver the Voltage Sourced Converter (VSC) system, with an accordant capacity of 800 MW. The turnkey connection will link the Offshore Wind Parks Veja Mate and Global Tech 1, located 125 km offshore, to the mainland with the purpose of transmitting wind generated renewable power into the German Grid. The project sets a number of milestones in the industry as it will be the first commercial ± 300 kV DC cable project using extruded technology (highest direct current voltage level ever reached), and the first 800 MW connection to offshore wind parks. 800, 1000 and 1200 mm2. "This latest contract for TRANSCO reinforces Nexans' position as a key supplier for high voltage power infrastructure projects in the Gulf region" says Dirk Steinbrink, Managing Director of Nexans Land High Voltage Business Group. "Our presence in Abu Dhabi goes back to the 1970s, and we have recently completed two major projects for ADWEA including a 400 kV underground link and a 132 kV submarine link to Delma Island". The TRANSCO cables will be manufactured at the Nexans facilities in Belgium and Switzerland and should be supplied and installed over an 18- month period, starting late 2010. DIARY DATES JULY * Heat Transfer 2010 - 11th International Conference, Tallinn, Estonia. Held on July 14th, 15th & 16th. * Hydrovision2010. Charlotte, NC, USA. July 26th-30th. AUGUST * 2nd International Conference on Oli Palm Biomass, Bangkok, Thailand. August 2nd & 3rd. * COAL-GEN 2010, Pittsburgh, USA. August 10th, 11th & 12th. SEPTEMBER * 25th Photovoltaic SOLAR ENERGY Conference & Exhibition, Valencia, Spain. September 6th - 10th. * 21st World Energy Congress, WEC Montreal, Canada. September 12th - 16th. * 10th International Clean Energy Conference, Famagusta, Cyprus. September 15th-17th. OCTOBER * POWER-GEN Middle East on October 4-6, 2010, held in Doha, Qatar. * ENERGY INDIA, Mumbai, India. October 7th-9th. * EP CHINA, EPA, ECEPT CHINA, ELECTRICAL CHINA 2010 - Beijing, China. October 19th-21st. 8 JUNE 2010 • WORLDWIDE I NDEPENDENT P OWER
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