Positive
Project advancing - milestone achieved
High Impact
Major milestone or critical setback
In 1950, the Swedish parliament decided to fund a high-voltage direct current transmission link between Gotland and mainland Sweden, and the Swedish State Power Board (Vattenfall) placed an order with ASEA for a 20 MW, 100 kV submarine cable system, thereby committing the necessary investment for the Gotland 1 HVDC interconnector to proceed.