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Vyborg HVDC scheme
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<p>The Vyborg HVDC scheme is a system of electricity transmission from the <a href="/facts/IPS%2fUPS/UmN4Ytke">Russian power system</a> to <a href="/facts/Finland/G5Ak6T91">Finland</a>, using <a href="/facts/High-voltage_direct_current/FDIob86A">high-voltage direct current</a>. It consists of four 355 <a href="/facts/Megavolt-ampere/6R2WrK7b">MVA</a> (250 MW) back-to-back <a href="/facts/HVDC_converter/4n4SINUW">converter</a> blocks, the first three of which were completed in the early 1980s and the last in January 2001. Much of the original converter equipment has been refurbished or modernised. </p>