Challenges with AC

Power Lines
• AC lines become loaded closer to their thermal capacity with increasing losses.

• Reduced power quality causes the risk of declining network stability.

• Overhead lines change the landscape, causes public resentment.

• Limit the distance of traditional AC underground cables to around 80km.

 Solution: HVDC
technology
• HVDC technology has the potential to play an important role in achieving this
solution.

• It provides improved power quality and power flow control as well.

• Introducing extruded DC-cables which have no technical limit to distance which

can be installed.

• It can provide an alternative to overhead lines particularly when the total

capital and environmental costs are considered.
 • HVDC (high-voltage direct current) is a highly efficient
alternative for transmitting large amounts of electricity
over long distances and for special purpose applications.

• Compared to alternating current, the direct current

system is less expensive and loses less energy.
HVDC -
Introduction • HVDC can be transmitted through cables both
underground and underwater.