The authorization for the electric bridge that will cross the Strait of Sicily comes from the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Safety. Pichetto Fratin: “It will allow the country to strengthen its role as an electricity ‘hub’ in Europe and the Mediterranean area”
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The Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security has authorized Elmed, the first electricity interconnection project between Italy and Tunisia which will be built by Terna and Steg, the operator of the Tunisian grid. This was announced in a joint press release explaining that a total investment of around 850 million euros is expected, of which 307 are European funds.
The power line
The power line will have a total length of approximately 220 kilometres, of which the majority will be a submarine cable, up to a maximum depth of approximately 800 meters along the Sicilian Channel. As regards the terrestrial cable, on the Italian side it will extend for 18 kilometers from the Castelvetrano landing place (Trapani), up to the conversion station which will be built in Partanna (Trapani), near the existing electrical station. In Tunisia, the electricity station will be built in Mlaabi, on the Cape Bon peninsula.
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The work will also be carried out with EU funds
The authorized interconnection is part of the Mattei Plan projects.
The Italy-Tunisia electricity bridge is described as a strategic work for the Italian electricity system within the energy transition objectives set by the Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan. Of the total investment to carry out the work, 307 million were allocated by the European Commission through the Connecting Europe Facility financing programme. This is the first case in which the European Union finances a project in which one of the countries involved – in this case Tunisia – is not part of the Union.
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Pichetto Fratin: “Italy’s role as an electricity hub in Europe has been strengthened”
On the green light for the construction of the power line between Italy and Tunisia, Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin declared: “The authorization of the new interconnection between Italy and Tunisia as well as being an important milestone within the challenging energy transition objectives set in the Pniec , will allow the country, by virtue of its strategic geographical position, to strengthen its role as an electricity ‘hub’ in Europe and the Mediterranean area, becoming a protagonist at an international level”.
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Terna’s industrial plan
“Elmed is one of the most significant projects in Terna’s 2024-2028 Industrial Plan – said Giuseppina Di Foggia, CEO and general director of the company – and the authorization obtained from the Ministry of the Environment is an important step forward towards its realization ”. Terna’s CEO then underlined the importance of the work in the decarbonisation path: “Interconnections represent a necessary tool to increase the level of energy independence of our country and to diversify energy supply sources”.
