Borealis Borlink™ – Step change Wire&Cable innovation towards sustainable power supply Karl Ebner-Baumgartner / Wendy Loyens Borealis FlexPO Houston, USA Oct. 19-22, 2015

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Major global challenges where Borealis makes a difference

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Water

Health Food

Climate Energy

Waste/Recycling

Innovation without societal benefit is not innovation but rather simple gimmickry

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Borealis Group Locations

Borealis L.A.T Locations

Borouge Locations

Borealis ‒ 2nd largest polyolefin producer

in Europe ‒ Headquarters in Vienna, Austria ‒ Sales of polyolefins, base

chemicals and fertilizers ‒ Revenues of EUR 8.3 billion

(2014) Borealis ownership structure ‒ 64% by IPIC, Abu Dhabi ‒ 36% by OMV, Austria Borouge ‒ Joint-venture with ADNOC ‒ World’s largest integrated

olefin/polyolefin complex ‒ Strong presence in the

Middle East and Asia

Borealis – Global presence with footprints in more than 20 countries (together with JV partner Borouge)

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Borealis Innovation Centres combine state- of-the-art facilities with foresighted thinking Linz, Austria

International Innovation Headquarters

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Schwechat, Austria Pilot plant

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Stenungsund, Sweden Innovation Centre

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Porvoo, Finland Innovation Centre, 2 pilot plants

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United Arab Emirates Borouge Innovation Centre

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Grand-Quevilly, France Competence Centre Fertilizer

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Borealis – Dedicated to the Wire & Cable industry

15 years of unique

experience in HVDC

20 years of proven track

record in EHV

40 years of Superclean

XLPE for HV

> 300 000 km of HV cables

> 15 000 km of EHV cables

99% of extruded

HVDC projects

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The Challenge – Demand for energy supply is ever increasing

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Power generation will shift towards renewables and will become more remotely generated

Source : IEA 2012

Source : IEA 2013 @ EWEA 2013

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Cables offer benefits vs. overhead lines for power transmission

- Very difficult to get approval for new overhead lines in densely populated areas

- Cannot be used offshore

Conclusion: Future power links will use even more high voltage power cables

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- Conductor

- Inner semicon

- Insulation

- Outer semicon

- Screen

- Water resistant layers

- Jacket

Borlink™ material solutions in modern power cables

Borlink™ material solutions

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Borstar® material solution

The path to excellence in cleanliness

Most important is to keep constant cleanliness levels over long time, consistency of quality = key

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Source: Borealis internal data

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Borlink™ technology provides leading material solutions for power cables

1. Proven track record of more than 45 years

2. Proprietary process to make high purity polymers

3. Closed and controlled product loop

4. Setting the industry quality standards

5. Continuous pace making innovations

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BorlinkTM provides the means to meet the energy challenges of tomorrow BorlinkTM provides an outstanding resource for meeting future challenges in the wire & cable industry.

Borlink is Borealis' and Borouge's industry-wide platform cross-linking the technology, products and expertise to connect networks and grids, as well as people and their access to energy.

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Borlink™ material solutions used in 99% of global polyolefin based HVDC cable projects

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Gotland, Sweden 80 kV, 60 MW

Cross Sound, US 150 kV, 330 MW

Borwin1, Germany 150 kV, 400 MW

EW connector, IR-UK 200 kV, 500 MW

South West Link, Sweden 300 kV, 1200 MW Dolwin 3, Germany 320 kV, 900 MW INELFE, France-Spain 320 kV, 1000 MW

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Market need: Higher power transmission capacity

World record Borlink innovation: XLPE HVDC for 525 kV and > 2 GW

New world record: 525 kV extruded HVDC cable system made from Borlink™ compounds

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Porjus

Stornorrfors Harsprånget

Letsi

Transmission capacity equal to more than the nominal capacity of the four biggest hydro power plants in Sweden

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HVDC projects using Borlink™ material solutions - Proven track record with 15 years of experience

80kV, 60MW, 140km

Gotland, Sweden, 1998

9kV,80MW, 9km

Tjoerborg, Denmark, 2000

84kV, 180MW, 390km

Direct Link, Australia, 2000

150kV, 330MW, 84km

Cross Sound, USA, 2002

150kV, 200MW, 360km

Murraylink, Australia, 2002

60kV, 80MW, 68km

Troll A, Norway, 2004

150kV, 350MW, 105km

Estlink, Finland-Estonia, 2006

150kV, 400MW, 390km

Borkum 2, Germany, 2009

200kV, 400MW, 85km

Trans-bay, USA, 2010

200kV, 500MW, 512km

Eigrid, Ireland-UK, 2014

250kV, 576MW, 260km

Helwin 1, Germany, 2015

300kV, 800MW, 40okm

Borwin 2, Germany, 2015

320kV, 800MW, 330km

Dolwin 1, Germany, 2015

320kV, 1000MW, 504km

INELFE, France - Spain, 2015

160kV, 200MW, 37km

Nan’Ao Island, China, 2013

200kV, 1160MW, 294km

Zhoushan, China, 2013

In service/commisioned

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Source : http://atlanticwindconnection.com/

Atlantic Wind Connection

New Jersey – Virginia - Wind power - Offshore undersea

transmission line - Up to 6000 MW - Power for 2 mio homes - 320 kV HVDC cables

Champlain Hudson Power Express

Canada / USA border – New York - Hydropower - Underwater and underground

cable line - Up to 1000 MW - 333 miles

Source : http://www.chpexpress.com/

Prospected HVDC projects in the North America

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Vision about future DC power grids – Examples: Europe, Asia

Europe

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Asia

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1. Energy demand is rising fast - Renewable energy will grow in importance for sustainable power supply

2. Borealis’ Borlink™ technology provides leading material solutions for power cables

3. Borlink™ material solutions enable new HVDC extruded cable systems for efficient long distance power transmission

4. Borlink™ material solutions used in 99% of polyolefin based HVDC cable projects

5. The latest innovation of Borlink™ compounds for 525 kV HVDC extruded cable systems sets a new world record

Take-Away Messages

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Borealis – taking on the challenges of tomorrow for more than 50 years

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Thank you

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