Ellis’ Centaur cable saddles have been specified by Russian cable engineering and cable supply company, Systec LLC, for use in the second phase development of the Zagorskaya Pumped Storage Plant (PSP).
The plant uses two lakes at different altitudes to generate sufficient power to cope with peak demands from the Russian capital, Moscow, and when complete will deliver 1,200MW of generated power and 1,320MW of consumable power.
Centaur is a heavy duty extruded aluminium saddle cleat that was designed and developed in-house by Ellis in response to a serious safety issue surrounding the restraint of high voltage (HV) and EHV cables up to 160mm in diameter.
Explaining the reason for specifying Ellis’ Centaur cable saddles, Pavel Udovitsky, a senior project manager for Systec, said, “We knew that Ellis had developed a cable cleat for EHV cables and when we spoke to them about the benefits it would bring to this project, the answers they provided left us in absolutely no doubt that its Centaur cable saddle was the ideal specification option.”
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