“ABB’s cutting-edge HVDC technology creates a vital link to ensure the grids of Sardinia and the Italian mainland are supplied with reliable electrical power as needed,” said Samir Brikho, head of ABB's Power Systems division. “The system also contributes to the necessary upgrade of an expanded Europe’s transmission infrastructure by creating another interconnection to facilitate the exchange of electrical power.”

ABB電力系統部主管Samir Brikho表示：“ABB尖端的HVDC技術創造了一條重要鏈接，保障了撒丁島和意大利大陸供應所需的可靠電力的電網。同時，該系統通過建設這個互連，是這個日益擴大的歐洲傳輸基礎構造的必要升級，推動了電力的交流輸送。”

The contract calls for ABB to design and deliver two converter stations, one in Fiume Santo, Sardinia, and the other in Latina, on the Italian mainland – both in existing 400 kilovolt (kV) substations. The stations include converter transformers as well as air-insulated and gas-insulated switchgear. ABB will produce the equipment at its factories in Sweden, Switzerland and Italy.

該合同要求ABB設計和交付兩座轉換站，一座位于撒丁島的Fiume Santo，另一座位于意大利大陸的拉蒂納市，兩座皆在現有的400千伏變電站上。轉換站包括轉換變壓器以及空氣絕緣和氣體絕緣開關。ABB將有其在瑞典、瑞士和意大利的工廠生產這些設備。

The distance between the two converter stations is 420 kilometers. Power cables will be laid beneath the Tyrrhenian Sea at depths of up to 1,600 meters.

兩座轉換站之間的距離是420公里。電線將鋪設在伊特魯里亞海深達1,600米的地方。

In addition to handling the power exchange, this sophisticated HVDC system can stabilize voltages and frequencies on Sardinia. It will be a bipolar HVDC system using two cables. The first pole will be completed in 2008.

除了處理電力轉換交流，該復雜的HVDC系統還可以穩定撒丁島的電壓和頻率。它是一個使用雙線的雙電極HVDC系統。第一個電極將在2008年完成。

This will be the third HVDC project delivered by ABB to Italy. The most recent interconnection between Italy and Greece was completed in 2001.

這將是ABB在意大利完成的第三個HVDC項目。最近一個是在2001年完成的意大利和希臘間的互連項目。

In late 2004, ABB began work on the world’s longest undersea power interconnection – the 580-kilometer-long NorNed link – that joins power grids in the Netherlands and Norway. In 2005, ABB began work on Estlink, a 100-kilometer undersea and underground interconnection, joining power grids in Finland and Estonia.

2004年末，ABB開始參與世界上最長的海底電力互連路線工程——連接荷蘭和挪威電力網的長達580公里的NorNed 路線。2005年，ABB開始參與Estlink項目，一個連接法國和愛沙尼亞電力網的100公里長的海底和地下電纜工程。

ABB pioneered HVDC technology more than 50 years ago when the company built the world’s first commercial high-voltage direct current transmission link in Sweden. ABB remains the world leader in HVDC transmission technology, with 55 HVDC projects improving the transmission capacity of utilities around the world by more than 45,000 MW.

ABB是HVDC技術的先驅，50多年前就在瑞典建造了世界上第一條商業高壓直流傳輸線。ABB仍然是HVDC傳輸技術的全球領先者，在全球范圍內安裝了55個HVDC項目，總容量超過45,000 兆瓦特，提高了傳輸能力。

ABB (www.abb.com) is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 105,000 people.

ABB集團是電力和自動化技術領域的全球領導廠商，致力于為工業和電力行業客戶提供解決方案，以幫助客戶提高生產效率，同時降低對環境的不良影響。ABB集團的業務遍布全球100多個國家，擁有大約105,000名雇員。

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