Transmission
News: 04.01.2013 11:00
Swissgrid now owns the 1,800 kilometres of UHV power lines that up to now were the property of Alpiq. As part of the transaction, Swissgrid also assumes responsibility for continuing the high-priority plans to expand the transmission system.
News: 27.09.2012 07:00
With its decision issued today, ElCom has cleared the way for the transfer of the transmission grid at the end of 2012. In return for the planned grid transfer, Alpiq is to receive additional shares in Swissgrid as well as a loan claim worth more than CHF 400 million repayable in instalments.
News: 29.08.2012 15:30
The Federal Administrative Court has today confirmed planning approval for the ultra-high voltage overhead line between Chamoson and Chippis. The application for laying the line underground was rejected. For Alpiq this is an important step. Top priority is accorded to construction of the 380-kV line by 2015.
News: 13.06.2012 12:00
Since 2008 Alpiq has been the Swiss leader in marketing electricity generated from waste incineration plants (WIPs). A new WIP pool set up by Alpiq will bundle this energy and make it available to Swissgrid as balancing energy. In so doing, the WIP pool will make a key contribution to the stability of the electricity grid. This will also boost ...
News: 15.12.2010 15:00
Today Alpiq submitted an appeal against the decree by the Federal Electricity Commission (ElCom) from 11 November 2010. It is directed against the charges made to holders of long term energy procurement and supply contracts (LTC) as well as the charging of system service costs (SDL) to the balance groups of the nuclear power plants Gösgen and ...
News: 03.11.2010 15:00
At the beginning of November 2010, construction work started on a new 220/145/50-kV substation in Therwil (BL). Alpiq Grid Ltd. Gösgen is building the facility in conjunction with its partners IWB and EBM. The old Froloo substation, which is still in operation after more than 50 years, will be demolished.
News: 10.06.2009 15:00
From 10 June 2009, on behalf of Atel Versorgungs AG (AVAG), Atel Transmission Ltd. will retrieve two, more than 50 years old, high voltage cables from the bed of the River Aare near Rankwaage near the village of Winznau (Canton of Solothurn). The work will be carried out using an excavator mounted on a 100 ton floating container. The removal will ...
News: 28.05.2009 15:30
In the River Reuss Valley in the Swiss canton of Uri, Atel Transmission Ltd. has commissioned the newly repositioned section of its high-voltage network. The joint project with the Swiss Railways SBB was part of the flood water protection measures in the Amsteg region. The cost is around 3.5 million Swiss francs.
News: 06.03.2009 11:00
After several political bodies and private persons had demanded that a cabling of the 380 kV power supply line from Chamoson to Chippis be checked out, Alpiq, or rather EOS, commissioned three companies (amongst them ABB) to prepare offers for underground laying; one for an alternating current (AC) cable and one for a direct current (HVDC Light) ...
