📋 Tender Overview
Scope of Work:
The Tyrrhenian Link – Western Branch.
Description:
The Tyrrhenian Link – Western Branch is the approx. 480 km-long section of the € 3.7 billion undersea power line that will connect Sicily and Sardinia. From the Terra Mala landing site of the cable in the province of Cagliari, the underground cables will run mainly along existing roads for around 30 km — leaving the environment and landscape unaltered — before arriving at Selargius, where the converter station will be built in areas near the existing electrical substation. The Sardinian Municipalities affected by the route of the underground cable all fall within the Cagliari metropolitan area, and include: Maracalagonis, Quartucciu, Quartu Sant’Elena, Settimo San Pietro and Sinnai.
The project is one of the main infrastructure works in Italy, continuing to improve the security, adequacy and flexibility of the transmission grid, reduce imbalances on the internal market and decarbonise the energy system in accordance with Paris Agreement targets. The connection will improve the capacity for electricity exchange between Campania, Sicily and Sardinia, significantly accelerating the development of renewable energy sources and phasing out coal in the generation of electricity. The new interconnection is a state-of-the-art project that will involve the construction of two 1000 MW direct current undersea power lines, one from Campania to Sicily and the other from Sicily to Sardinia, for a total length of around 970 km, with approximately 60 km running overland. The project will become fully operational in 2028.
