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Supplying and laying the submarine cables, using the Leonardo da Vinci vessel

Terna has started laying submarine cables across the Strait of Messina for the Bolano-Annunziata power line. The link will raise Sicily-mainland exchange capacity by 500 MW, to 2,000 MW. The first of three cables is in place, the second is nearly finished, and the third is due by early November.

Updated Oct 27

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Supplying the 525kV HVDC cable

The first of 14 transformers for Eastern Green Link 1 has come off GE Vernova's production line in Staffordshire and been loaded for transport. The 196-kilometre subsea cable will carry 2 gigawatts of Scottish wind power to northern England, enough for about two million homes.

Updated Oct 25

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Contracted to manufacture and install 345 km of cable

Officials turned the first sod at Heybridge, Tasmania, on October 2, starting major construction on the 750-megawatt first stage of Marinus Link. The cable will run 255 kilometres under Bass Strait and about 90 kilometres underground to Victoria's Latrobe Valley, with the first stage due to operate by late 2030.

Updated Oct 20