Bonn - Current City of Bonn: The power outage in November 2006 has proved it - thanks to the super-grid to burn out the lights in our capital times even then when it gets zappenduster with our neighbors. Keep it this way, renewed the RWE Energy is one of the wires across the Rhine.
The giant cable is 486 meters long. Thick as a child's fist and ten tons, it is to replace an old over 40 years cable veterans from the sixties and carrying 110,000 volts across the Rhine.
Since the copper alone would cost for such a cable around 60,000 euros, will be relocated aluminum, which costs less than half.
"The cable connecting the substation to the substation in Beuel in Sandkaule" said RWE spokesman Theo Horstmann. For this purpose the cable is fed through a tube in the substructure of the Kennedy Bridge. Then current between the two systems can be distributed, for example, "to help out each other."
In the substations, the incoming high voltage 110,000 volt runtertransformiert be redistributed to 10,000 volts and the current. Runtergeregelt Beueler on the Rhine, on other transformers in the sockets of electricity customers, at the Bonn page to the SWB and the substation north of Bonn and Kessenich. Security of supply will be increased on both sides of the Rhine.
"The construction projects are nearing completion and we expect to complete the work in the coming weeks," said Horstmann further. "We want to make sure for the next 40 years a high reliability in even less interference."
