Prysmian, contract worth over 175 million dollars in the USA.

Prysmian has been awarded a contract worth over 175 million dollars by the American Hudson Transmission Partners LLC to build an underground and submarine electricity connection between the city of New York and the New Jersey grid. The Italian company will be responsible for the design, supply and installation of a 345 kV alternating current high voltage system, which will be developed over a total distance of approximately 13 kilometres. The system will have a total capacity of 660 MW of power. Siemens will supply the back-to-back converter station in Ridgefield, New Jersey. The Hudson project, in addition to satisfying New York's growing need for electricity, will make it possible to increase the use of energy from renewable sources and natural gas, favoring the decommissioning of one or more obsolete, inefficient energy production plants and with a high environmental impact, located in the urban area of ​​New York. Prysmian will lay a bundle consisting of three high voltage submarine cables and two optical fiber cables for data transmission in the bed of the Hudson River with the Group-owned cable-laying vessel, the Julius Verne. During laying, the bundle of submarine cables will be buried under the river bed, between three and five meters deep. The submarine cables (high voltage and optical cables) will be produced in Italy at the Arco Felice plant (Naples). Once completed, the Hudson project will be the second major power transmission infrastructure built by Prysmian in recent years in the New York and New Jersey areas, following the 500 kV Neptune underground and submarine cable system in 2007. The Project completion is expected during the third quarter of 2013.