Harju Elekter receives major order from E.ON

E.ON is one of Sweden’s largest energy companies, with around one million private and corporate customers in Sweden. The company describes its operations as follows: “Our goal is to improve people’s lives. We do this by supplying communities with the energy necessary to ensure daily life runs smoothly for everyone. At the same time we work hard to see that the energy is used in increasingly smart ways to conserve the earth’s resources.”

To ensure the continued high reliability of its network, E.ON has signed a framework agreement with three players in the Swedish market for 12 and 24 kV substations.

One of the suppliers entrusted to deliver equipment to E.ON is Harju Elekter. The company’s share of the agreement includes supplying substations in sheet metal and concrete to a value of nearly SEK 50 million annually for a three-year period. The agreement was signed on February 10.

For Harju Elekter, gaining E.ON’s continued confidence is a major achievement.

“We cooperate very closely with E.ON and, between 2018 and 2021, have supplied primarily sheet metal substations. Throughout the agreement period we have been in close touch with E.ON, developing the stations according to their wishes and those of their subcontractors,” says Magnus Anundsson, Business Area Manager for Energy at Harju Elekter in Sweden.

Harju Elekter manages each project from design/engineering through to delivery and installation, from individual substations to complete primary stations. A structured, well ordered approach to all project work, including assembly, is key. The substations for E.ON will be manufactured in the main factory of Harju Elekter’s parent company in Estonia. There, focus on competitive high-quality products, delivered on time, is essential to give E.ON the best possible support as it invests in the development of a sound infrastructure in Sweden. Safety is of the utmost importance to both E.ON and Harju Elekter. Accordingly, in daily operations, safety is constantly on the agenda in all follow-up meetings between the companies.

“We’re entering the next phase of our collaboration with E.ON with the development and type-testing of new stations for the larger, more efficient transformers now required,” says Magnus Anundsson.

The order involves ongoing deliveries to the logistics center at Harju Elekter’s Swedish facility in Grytgöl. There, final checking is carried out before the stations are delivered to sites as far apart as Dorotea in the north and Ystad in the south. In Grytgöl Harju Elekter also has development, design/engineering and production of technical shelters for the energy, infrastructure and telecom sectors.

Examples of earlier deliveries of substations to E.ON