21/10/2026
Why build a 53-metre tower to make a cable ? 🏗️
Because of gravity.
Our 525 kV HVDC land cable has a core as wide as a tennis ball 🎾, wrapped in thick layers of insulation that go on hot and soft. Making it vertically keeps everything perfectly centred, all along its length.
So in Charleroi, we built up ⬆️
📍 53 metres tall
📅 Inaugurated on 1 October
🏭 On a site that has been making cable for 100+ years
It’s one piece of our €90M programme to expand high-voltage capacity in Europe 🇪🇺
What comes out of the tower goes underground, carrying offshore wind power 🌊 into the grids that keep Europe running.
Nobody will see it. Everybody will use it. ⚡