Merchant-lines
The Group has developed a project for an interconnecting direct current cable between the Italian transmission grid and the Albanian grid to a capacity of 500 MW and a tension of 400 kV.
The line is 154 km long of which 14 km are on Italian soil, ( Brindisi ) 10 km is on Albanian soil and the remaining 130 km run along the sea bed in the Channel of Otranto to a maximum depth of 825 metres. The two extremities are connected to conversion stations (transforming direct current in to alternative current) which are connected respectively to SSE of 380 kV Brindisi Sud (Italia) and SSE of 220 kV Babica (Albania). This project has already been judged favourably by the Management of the transmission Networks (Terna in Italy and TSO in Albania) has been approved (9.01.2008) from the Albanian Government and is in the final stages of authorisation on Italian soil.
The interconnection will facilitate the importation in Italy of wind power produced by the company working on Albanian soil. It is not to be excluded, that in the near future that the interconnection will be used to enance the importation of energy produced by conventional plants that the Group intends to develop on Albanian soil.
The company has also developed a project for an iterconnecting direct current cable between the Italian trasmission grid and the Tunisinian one, to a capacity of 600 MW and a tension of 400 kV.
The line is 223 km long, of which 25 km are on Italian soil (Partanna, Castelvetrano and Menfi), 1 km on Tunisinian soil (Nabeul) and 196 km underwater, placed within Canale di Sicilia, where a maximum depht of is met 770 metri.
This project, that has already been judged favourably by the Management of the transmission Networks (Terna), today is on stage of authorization. The interconnection will facilitate the importation in Italy of wind power produced in plants by renewables sources and that the society doesn’t want to build on the Tunisian soil. A wind farm, a photovoltaic plant and a cycle combined thermoelectric plant are in stage of discussion. He will use gas coming from Algeria.
