The direct current transmission scheme linking the island of
Gotland to the main land of Sweden by means of a submarine cable
under the Baltic Sea is the first commercial realisation of a
modern technique for the transmission of electrical energy. It is
certainly not accidental that this pioneering initiative was
allotted to the Gotland scheme. Various viewpoints may be presented
regarding this, but the essential factor relates to the
circumstances that permitted the magnitude ofthe transmitted power
to be given a value which would not have been technically or
economically feasible for any other project. The power, on the one
hand, was sufficiently small to justify the risk associated with
such a new venture, for it fell within limits acceptable both to
ASEA as the manufacturer and to the Swedish State Power Board as
the customer. On the other hand, the power was large enough to
demonstrate the technical and economic characteristics of the new
system and to provide the opportunity of gaining invaluable
experience that could be applied to future large-scale transmission
systems. In 1954 a team under the direction of Dr. Uno Lamm
successfully commissioned the Gotland scheme, representing the
culmination of many years of intensive development work."
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