Prysmian Group has been awarded contracts for the SuedLink Corridor in Germany by the German transmission grid operators TransnetBW and TenneT. Under the contracts, worth together more than € 800 million, Prysmian is to design, manufacture, supply, lay, joint, test and commission a 2GW underground cable system from North to South Germany.
Prysmian will deliver a complete ±525 kV HVDC underground cable system able to transmit 2GW of electrical power. The route, with a length of around 700 km, from Wilster in Schleswig-Holstein, to the north-west of Hamburg, shall run the length of Germany to the southern connection point at Bergrheinfeld, close to Schweinfurt in Bavaria. Project completion is planned in 2026.
