| ©ICIS HEREN - New Hungarian - Romanian interconnector to come online in December |
| 2010-04-06 |
| The Hungarian and Romanian transmission system operators (TSOs) plan to have a new 400kV interconnector operational by 10 December, Mavir, the Hungarian grid operator told ICIS Heren on Thursday (27th November). According to the Romanian grid operator, Transelectrica, the 60 km link, which will run from Oradea in Romania to Bekescsaba in Hungary, is currently undergoing final tests. To date, only one interconnector exists along the mutual border, shipping up to 250 MW from Romania to Hungary, while flows in the opposite direction are restrict to 100 MW. The new interconnector is expected to be notably larger, in order to decongest the bottleneck. The exact capacity of the new link is understood to be “about 1 000 MW”. Annual cross-border capacity auctions for the region were held during the session which results were released by Mavir on Thursday (27th November). The average cost to export from Romania to Hungary was still notably higher than in the other direction, which led one participant to suspect the new interconnector’s capacity had not been accounted for the action. The project has been funded by both TSO’s, as well as the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), with the total investment reaching �34m. The interconnector is the first part of a three-stage upgrade of the Romanian grid. Transelectrica is considering building new links to Moldova, Serbia, and a subsea link to Turkey. (THE ICIS HEREN REPORTS - EDEM 12 232 / 27 November 2008) |
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