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Cable company Nexans has won a €20million (£17.5m) contract to supply the overhead conductors for the world’s longest power transmission link. The link will send energy from the Rondônia hydroelectric plant in northwest Brazil to the country’s largest city, Sao Paolo, which has a population of roughly 20 million and is Brazil’s main economic centre. […]