HIDROSTANK ACCESS CHAMBERS CERTIFIED BY REE

At the end of last year Red Eléctrica of Spain ( REE) homologated HIDROSTANK access chambers for underground lines according to the technical specification ET202

HIDROSTANK has worked closely with the technician of the Lines Engineering Department of REE defining the models for telecommunications facilities channeling

Red Eléctrica of Spain is a Spanish company that acts as the electricity system operator (Transmission System Operator) in the Spanish electricity market. REE manages the entire network of electricity transmission (high voltage)

Thus, with the approval of REE, HIDROSTANK provided its innovative Access chambers in the works of the new high voltage power line of 64.5 km connecting Spain and France through the Pyrenees and will be operational by 2014.

The Inelfe project, 50% subsidiary of Spain’s Red Electrica (REE) and its French counterpart Réseau Transport d’Electricité (RTE), has a budget of 700 million euros and is funded by the European Union as part of the EEPR program (European Energy Programme for Recovery). Should double the current interconnection capacity between the two countries in 1400 to about 2,800 megawatts.