Enea expands electricity transmission network

One of Poland’s largest producers of electricity, Enea, announced on Monday that it would carry out PLN 900 million in investments in 2016. In a statement released to the Polish press, the company’s director of planning and development, Dariusz Strzelecki, said that 100 high-voltage projects had already been completed thus far in 2016, along with “thousands” of medium and low voltage lines. “Their scope and size are varied…this illustrates the effort of our employees in the implementation of the so-called ‘Major investment,’ which will allow us to ensure the security of supply of electricity to our customers,” his statement read. He added that the network was changing its character and becoming more modern, by facilitating connectedness to the Smart Grid and developing clusters of electrical transmission lines. Enea Operator has recently built more than 250 km of high-voltage substations and five high voltage lines of strategic importance, including the Morzyczyn-Drawski line, which is over 137 km long. By the end of this year, the operator plans to deliver two more of this type of station, including one built from scratch.