Refurbishment and upgrade of a 400 kV series compensation station

Fingrid Oyj will refurbish 400 kV series compensation station as a turnkey basis contract. The scope includes upgrade and refurbishment of existing Fixed Series Capacitor banks (3 banks) with control and protection systems, primary equipment and necessary civil works. The work site will be located in northern Ostrobothnia, Finland.

Fingrid Oyj, the Finnish national transmission system company, is initiating a refurbishment project of Uusnivala 400 kV three (3) Fixed Series Capacitor (FSC) banks. The project is purchased on turnkey basis. The FSCs will be located at the Uusnivala site in the municipality of Nivala, about 220 km north of the city Jyväskylä. In addition to the FSCs, the scope includes all necessary civil and construction works. The site currently includes three (3) functional FSC banks that are to be refurbished and upgraded for the parts necessary. Intended project delivery time is March 2022 - December 2023. Procurement was done according to Finnish legislation concerning public procurements in energy sector (in particular, the Act on Public Procurement concerning Units Operating within the field of Water and Energy Service as well as Traffic and Postal Service (1398/2016)). The procurement method was negotiating method.