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Go-ahead given for Alytus switchyard reconstruction works

Vilnius, Lithuania, 2013-09-13 08:46 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On September 12,
2013, the Board of Litgrid gave the go-ahead for concluding a contract for the
purchase of reconstruction works of the 330 kV switchyard of the Alytus
transformer substation with A. Žilinskio ir Ko UAB. The contract will be signed
with the contractor after the expiry of the 15 days term for postponement of
the signing of the contract. 

Under the contract, which is valued at LTL 43.5 million including VAT, the
contractor will have to carry out all works necessary for the proper operation
of the reconstructed and expanded Alytus switchyard. The contractor will also
have to draft the project of works, prepare equipment necessary for the
reconstruction and arrange construction works provided for in the technical
project. The reconstruction works of the switchyard will have to be carried out
in 20 months following the conclusion of the contract. 

The international public procurement of the reconstruction works of the Alytus
switchyard started in March 2013. A total of 3 companies took part in the
process. 

Following the reconstruction of the 330 kV switchyard at the Alytus transformer
substation, it will be connected with two new 330 kV electricity transmission
lines stretching to the HVDC back-to-back converter station and Kruonis pumped
storage hydroelectric plant. The switchyard will operate together with the HVDC
back-to-back converter station and the 400 kV switchyard, which will be
designed and constructed by ABB. The contract with ABB was signed in February
2013. 

The Alytus transformer substation, which is undergoing a complex
reconstruction, will be renewed by the end of 2015, when the Lithuanian
electricity system will be connected with LitPol Link, a power link with
Poland. The 110 kV switchyard of the Alytus substation is currently undergoing
reconstruction. The reconstruction works of the 330 kV switchyard will start in
October 2013 and the construction of the 400 kV switchyard and the HVDC
back-to-back converter station in Alytus will begin in spring of 2014. 


         Laura Šebekienė
         Head of Communications
         Ph. + 370 693 65377,
         Email: laura.sebekiene@litgrid.eu