This is the first of the six projects of common interest belonging to Transelectrica included in the list reviewed in November last year, which receives financing from the European Commission.
“These last months we managed expediting the processes regarding the Cernavoda-Stalpu line and in so doing we received important support from the Government, by promoting the Governmental Decision to launch the expropriation procedures last autumn. At the same moment we also promoted the decision to launch the expropriation procedures for the Smardan-Gutinas line, which had been already preselected in the Operational Programme Large Infrastructure (OPLI) and for which we decided to submit the financing demand in June”, stated Corina Popescu, Executive Director General of Transelectrica.
The overhead electric line Cernavoda – Stalpu will contribute to increasing the interconnection capacity between Romania and Bulgaria and to integrating wind power from Dobrogea region.
The project for the Cernavoda-Stalpu line, part of the Black Sea Corridor Cluster, is one of the six major investment objectives Transelectrica SA is carrying out, which are found in the third list of projects of common interest (PCI) regarding the energy infrastructure, adopted in November last year by the European Commission.
The total value of the six investments reaches nearly RON1 billion. All such projects contribute to achieving the national 400 kV ring, an objective included in the governing plan leading to higher operational safety of SEN and to an economic operational regime of the RET.
The 400-kV line Cernavoda – Stalpu will be about 160 km long, and in order to commission it one needs building the 400 kV substation Stalpu and extending substations Cernavoda and Gura Ialomitei. In accordance with the 10 Years’ Development Plan of CNTEE Transelectrica SA, the 400 kV OHL Cernavoda-Stalpu will be completed in 2020.