19/02/2017 CDM
Submarine power cable between Montenegro and Italy, i.e. between the Balkans and European Union is completely laid, it was confirmed for TVCG from the company Terna.
The cable was installed from the boat Skerak of the Norwegian company Neksans, which is specialised for installing cables. The total length of the cable between Pescara and the cape Jaz amounts to 455 kilometres, of which the length of the submarine cable is 433 kilometres.
At the beginning of last year Terna laid 136 km cable from the Italian coast, and at the beginning of December last year it was completed the laying of 157 kilometres on the Montenegrin side, from the cape Jaz towards Italy.
During laying of cable, works have been performed at the bottom of the Adriatic Sea at a depth reaching even 1.200 metres, with nominal transmission capacity of direct current of 1.000 megawatt (MW).
The complete project of power connection between Montenegro and Italy should be completed by the end of next year.
It was communicated previously that at the same time and in parallel with the power cable, it would be laid also an optical cable for telecommunication links.
Laying of the inland part of the cable on the Montenegrin side began in early October last year, in the length of about 6 kilometres from the cape Jaz to the substation Lastva.
Within this project, Crnogorski elektroprenosni sistem (CGES) is building the substation Lastva and 400 kV overhead line Lastva–Čevo–Pljevlja.
For the construction of the substation Lastva, as part of the main design, it will be invested 38.5 million €, while the investment for overhead lines from Lastva to Čevo will amount to 28.5 million €, and for the overhead line from Čevo to Pljevlja 39 million €.
In early year, the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism issued a building permit to Terna Montenegro for the construction of the substation in Lastva Grbaljska, which is part of the project of power connection between Montenegro and Italy.
Such converter plant, worth around 90 million €, will be constructed in proximity to the substation Lastva Grbaljska, which CGES is constructing within the same project. The same converter plant is being constructed also on the Italian side near Pescara.
The agreement on connection between Italy and Montenegro through power cable was signed in mid-November 2010, and the total value of the project amounts to around 1 billion €.