New high-voltage submarine link between Mallorca and Ibiza

April 4, 2013

Eiffage Energia has been awarded by Nexans, a package of more than € 8 million, consisting of the realization of all civil works both in Mallorca and Ibiza, as well as the laying of underground High voltage conductors (overland).

Among the scope of our work, there are three directional drilling in the sea from the bay of Talamanca in Ibiza, 700 meters deep, over 10,000 m trenches for single, double and triple circuits, 24 junction cameras, horizontal drilling road and the laying of more than 28,000 meters of wire between the side of Palma de Mallorca and Ibiza side.

Nexans, worldwide leading expert in the cable industry, has managed to REE (Electrical network of Spain), a turnkey contract worth over 90 million €, for the realization of a new high-voltage submarine link of 115 kilometers between the Islands of Mallorca and Ibiza. This project is part of a series of investments that REE develops to the interconnection between Balearic Islands and Iberian Peninsula to ensure and improve the reliability of electricity supply to the archipelago. The aim is also to promote efficiency, energy saving and emission reduction.