HVDC Italy–Greece
The HVDC Italy–Greece is a monopolar submarine power cable link between Italy and Greece with a maximum transmission power of 500 megawatts. It went in service in 2001. The HVDC Italy–Greece begins in the static inverter plant Galatina situated at  in Italy and is implemented in its first  as underground cables. Then it crosses the Ionian Sea as a  long submarine cable. It reaches shore just a few kilometres south of Albanian border at , where the  long overhead line to  Arachthos static inverter station situated at  starts. The cathode is implemented as bare copper wire on the Italian site, the anode is installed in a bay in Greece at . Sites

See also

External links

  ABB website on HVDC Italy-Greece
 THE ITALY-GREECE HVDC LINK .pdf

Energy infrastructure completed in 2001
HVDC transmission lines
Italy-Greece
Electric power infrastructure in Italy
Electric power infrastructure in Greece
Greece–Italy relations
2001 establishments in Italy
2001 establishments in Greece