Interconnect Malta launches environmental studies for second interconnector

Interconnect Malta (ICM) has launched the front-end engineering design and the environmental impact assessment studies of Interconnector 2, the second electricity interconnection project between Malta and Italy.  

The company launched these studies as it completed the preliminary marine route survey along the project’s proposed subsea cable route.

Fugro Italy SpA, the contractor entrusted with this study, surveyed the 100-kilometre route between Bahar iċ-Ċagħaq in Malta and Marina di Ragusa in Sicily, to obtain the bathymetric, geophysical, geo-technical and environmental data required to plan the safest and most sustainable route of the submarine cable.

Following an international call for tenders, Interconnect Malta recently awarded the front-end engineering design of this project to a joint venture between CESI SpA (Centro Elettrotecnico Sperimentale Italiano) and Techfem SpA.

This contract includes high-voltage network studies and detailed design of land and subsea routes, land-sea transitions, cable protection methods, size and material of the onshore and subsea cables, and other ancillary equipment needed for the project. These designs and specifications will be required...