One of the world’s largest integrated electrical cable works is being carried out by ADMIE subsidiary Ariadni Interconnection, which is laying 335 kilometers of 500 kV UHVDC submarine cable in Electric connection of Attica – Crete.

A cable weighing up to 13,500 tons is laid at a maximum depth of 1,200 meters between Korakia in Heraklion (Crete) and Paki Megaron (Attica) on a modern cable-laying vessel “Leonardo da Vinci”. contracting company Prysmian Powerlink. This is a highly technical operation that was successfully launched in early December and is estimated to last approximately nine weeks.

After launching the first electrical connection of Crete with the Greek mainland via the Peloponnese in July 2021, ADMIE continues at an intense pace and on schedule also the second connection of the island with Attica, the largest completed electricity transmission project. currently in a country with a budget of 1 billion euros and a completion horizon of 2024.

As for the underwater part of the project, the first 170 km of electric cable from Attica to Milos have already been laid, as well as all 670 km of fiber optic cables.

From the Attica side, work on the installation of underground cable sections is in full swing, while the foundations of the main buildings of the conversion stations to be built at the two ends of the interconnection, namely at Damaste of Heraklion and Aspropyrgos of Attica, have begun.

ADMIE President and CEO Manos Manousakis said: “ADMIE and its subsidiary Ariadni Interconnection are taking another major step towards the completion of a major interconnection between Crete and Attica with one of the most complex submarine cable laying operations ever. on the international level”. . Ariadni Interconnection project manager Angelos Stamatelos said: “Over the next six months, the ADMIE subsidiary will install all submarine cables and focus on the equally important onshore part of the project.”