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Power transmission cables - Applications

Author: Michel PAYS

Publication date: December 10, 1994

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1. DC cables

1.1 Areas of DC power transmission

There are many reasons why high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power transmission was chosen, and the reader may wish to refer to the article in this treatise on High-voltage direct current power transmission [57] . Among these are the following:

  • interconnection of two networks of the same or different frequencies and network stabilization ;

  • very long-distance transmission (> 600 km for lines); from 40 km upwards (depending on the power to be transmitted), HVDC power transmission via

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