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Operators award UK-Belgium power link contracts to Siemens, Sumitomo

Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Belgium's Elia (ELI.BR) and Britain's National Grid (NG.L) have awarded two contracts jointly worth roughly 500 million euros ($558.35 million) to build the first power trade cable between Britain and Belgium to Siemens (SIEGn.DE) and a subsidiary of Sumitomo Electric Industries .

Siemens will build and maintain the converter stations needed to transport the electricity, while Sumitomo Electric's J-Power Systems will manufacture and lay the 140-kilometre long subsea cable.

Construction work on the 1,000-megawatt project is expected to start later this year and the interconnector is set to start operating in 2019.

The so-called NEMO link will be the first electricity import-export cable to connect Britain and Belgium and is supported by financing from the European Commission as it is deemed a project of common interest to member states.

Network operators Elia and National Grid made a final investment decision to build the project in late February.

($1 = 0.8955 euros)

(Reporting by Karolin Schaps)