Design of assets of a mixed overhead line – underground cable 400kV link

The STEVIN link, named after Renaissance mathematician Simon Stevin from Bruges, is a necessary step to connect electrical power from almost all wind power plants in the Belgian Territorial waters and from the NEMO HVDC link (connecting the Belgian and the English grid with a rating of 1000MW) to the main 400kV grid, which is situated some 50 km inland. Close to the coastal area, only a radial 150kV grid actually exists, which is unable to absorb all the new announced offshore electrical power. The success of the wind integration program and the interconnector with the UK depends on the availability of this new 400kV grid antenna.