The order, which encompasses two 100MW HVDC Light converter stations and a pair of 158km 80kV submarine cables, will allow Åland – an autonomous Finnish province at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea – to tie more renewable energy into its supply network while switching off the current alternating current (AC) line from Sweden.
“The link will enable the integration of more renewable energy, provide security of power supply and grid reliability to Åland,” says Brice Koch, head of ABB's
