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 40.16472°N, 18.13028°W in Italy and is implemented in its first 43 km as underground cables. Then it crosses the Ionian Sea as a 160 km long submarine cable. It reaches shore just a few kilometres south of Albanian border at 39.68333°N, 20.01917°W, where the 110 km long overhead line to Arachthos static inverter station situated at 39.18333°N, 20.96333°W starts. The cathode is implemented as bare copper wire on the Italian site, the anode is installed in a bay in Greece at 39.67444°N, 20.06806°W.