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On 30 April 2026, the Polish-Swedish SwePol Link HVDC interconnector was returned to commercial service following completion of repair works on the damaged onshore cable section on the Polish side, ending an outage that began on 12 February 2026. The repair campaign was performed by Polish contractor ENPROM together with cable manufacturer NKT (successor to ABB's high-voltage cable business), in cooperation with Polish transmission system operator PSE and Swedish system operator Svenska Kraftnät. The 600 MW, 450 kV monopolar HVDC link had been offline for approximately 11 weeks. Investigations by PSE indicated no signs of intentional damage; the fault was attributed to material fatigue arising from the cable's long operational history (in service since 2000). After re-energisation, PSE published a separate TSO communication on 29 April 2026 limiting transmission capacity to 490 MW in both directions during the ramp-up phase for technical-operational reasons.