President : Walter ZENGER - EPRI (USA)

Members :

• Pierre ARGAUT - SAGEM (France)
• Willem BOONE - KEMA (The Netherlands)
• Jean-Luc PARPAL - HYDRO QUEBEC (Canada)
• Susumu SAKUMA - VISCAS Corp. (Japan)
• Reinhard SCHROTH - PIRELLI (Germany)

The Prize Selection Committee of JICABLE'03 upon consideration, declares the winner for the best communication to be :

A 5.1 : Development of factory-expanded cold-shrinkable joint for EHV XLPE cables

Authors : S. KOBAYASHI, D. MUTO, S. TANAKA and H. IZUKA (Japan)

Prize Selection Committee Statement :

An outstanding presentation of an innovative new technology. Cold shrinkable EHV joints will be able to reduce installation time and minimize defects during installation. The presentation of this young Japonese engineer in the non-native language was excellent.
Both, these criteria were considered in making this selection