Transelectrica invests in communications

Compania Nationala de Transport al Energiei Electrice (National Electrical Power Transport Company) Transelectrica will have 22 high capacity fibre optics communication lines available as of January 2003, for whose operation it is planning to team up with a powerful telecommunications investor, Jean Constantinescu, general manager of the company, said.

“Of the three choices at hand, that is leasing, selling or launching an independent business, the Board of Directors and the General Shareholders Assembly have chosen the third,” Constantinescu added.

The national energy transport company will organise a tender to find the partner Transelectrica will team up with to operate the 22 lines.

Transelectrica will have 36 fibre optics communication lines available through the rehabilitation programme of the electrical aerial lines transport system, funded by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the European Investment Bank (EIB) and by PHARE.

Fourteen of those lines will be used for transmitting data in the electrical network and for tele-sincronising the energy consumption in real time by reading the counters by remote at the same time.

Transelectrica will soon launch the bids for the rehabilitation of the electrical lines to be fitted with OPGW (Optical Power Ground Wire) conductors, which allow installing high-capacity communication lines. This rehabilitation programme will take up $104.75 million. Mediafax