Submarine Cable Transports Wind And Solar Energy From Egypt To Europe
Oct 18, 2022
Greek energy giant Copelouzos Group plans to lay a submarine cable to connect 9.5GW of wind and solar energy from Egypt to the Attica region of Greece. The project has recently been included in Entso-E's ten-year development plan.
The Greek Kopeluzos Group plans to build a 1,373 km long High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) submarine power transmission line. The line will connect Egypt to the Attica region of Greece.
The group said its representatives had recently met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly and Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker to review the progress of the Gregy Elica interconnection project. The progress of the project.
In October 2021, the European Union of Transmission Operators (Entso-E) included the project in its Ten-Year European Grid Development Plan (TYNDP 2022).
The Kopeluzos Group said at the time, "Its inclusion in TYNDP 2022 is the first necessary step in the context of the European grid interconnection, after which we will start the process of including this ambitious project in the sixth EU list of projects of common interest (PCI)."
The 700 MW cable will help transmit 9.5 GW of wind and solar energy from Egypt to the Greek-Italian and Greek-Bulgarian transmission networks. It will be deployed at a maximum water depth of 2,527 metres.
Entso-E announced on its website: "The project is expected to allow Egypt to export renewable electricity to Greece and vice versa at the peak of renewable generation, which will help to significantly increase the participation of renewable energy in the energy mix and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector. The project is very complex because, in addition to the long distances over which the cables will be laid, it involves several transmission system technologies, including AC and DC lines, overhead, underground and submarine transmission lines.
According to Entso-E, the project is expected to be commissioned in 2028.
