Reuters reports that Greece’s power grid operator has launched an international open tender for a project linking the island of Crete to the mainland grid via undersea cables, the Energy Ministry said on Wednesday.
The project connecting Crete to the Peloponnese peninsula is part of a 2-billion-euro, 10-year investment plan to connect some of Greece’s islands to the mainland.
The Crete link is expected to be completed by 2020 and is budgeted to cost 324 million euros, the ministry noted. Crete will also be connected to Athens in a later phase.
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