Admie includes Northeast Aegean EUR 935 million cable in ten-year plan
Greece’s transmission system operator announced its network development budget would have a segment covering the Northeast Aegean region by 2030. The state-owned company now intends to include the islands in operations interconnecting the Dodecanese with the mainland grid. According to Manos Manousakis, the Northeast Aegean project brings “significant environmental benefits” and enables stronger integration of […]
Greece preparing to sell 39% in project to connect Crete with Attica
The call for expressions of interest for the entry of one or more strategic investors in Ariadne Interconnection is expected to be announced “in the first months of 2020,” according to the media in Greece. Independent Power Transmission Operator SA, also known as IPTO or Admie, is said to be preparing to sell up to […]
Evia-Andros cable comes online, Greece’s Admie says
Independent Power Transmission Operator SA has said it electrified the 150kV alternating current or AC submarine interconnection between the islands of Andros and Evia in Greece. The link boosts the existing supply capacity within the second corridor of the Cyclades, according to the entity known both as IPTO and Admie. It added the cable connecting […]
Italy-Montenegro yearly capacity auction offer lands at 140 MW
Following the launch of the interconnection across the Adriatic Sea, the Coordinated Auction Office in South East Europe or SEE CAO started the auction process for 2020 by offering the capacity of 140 MW in both ways. The operator received bids for the allocation of physical transmission rights (PTRs). After the announcement of the provisional […]
Nexans to begin laying cable to Syros under Aegean Sea
Top officials from the Independent Power Transmission Operator SA (IPTO or ADMIE) of Greece and contractor Nexans SA, based in France, announced yesterday in Lavrion port that boats are about to start rolling out the electric cable in the third phase of establishing an interconnection with Cyclades Islands. The first, 28-kilometre section of the submarine […]
China wants in on Crete power link, joins Minos solar project
China’s president Xi Jinping left Greece with 16 bilateral deals, after an official three-day visit, where the focus was placed on the most populous country’s massive Belt and Road Initiative for infrastructure, manufacturing and trade across Asia, Africa and Europe. The projects include the interconnection cable which is planned to be installed between Crete and […]
EUR 1 billion Crete-Attica interconnection draws bids from major cable construction players
Major companies in the cable construction sector have filed binding bids for lots of a EUR 1 billion project to build the Crete-Attica electricity grid interconnection, whose construction is seen as urgent to avert electricity shortages on Greece’s largest island. Ariadne Interconnection, a special purpose vehicle of Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO or ADMIE) […]
Bids invited to build North Macedonia’s electricity interconnection with Albania
North Macedonia’s state-owned electricity transmission system operator (TSO) MEPSO has invited bids to build a 400 kV transmission line and a new 400/110 kV substation in the vicinity of Ohrid to provide North Macedonia with an electricity interconnection with Albania. North Macedonia’s electricity interconnection project entails (i) the construction of electricity transmission infrastructure from Bitola […]