After just two and a half years of work, the power line that connects Trino Vercellese with the southern suburbs of Milan is ready. The high voltage line, built by Terna, will serve to make the flow of French electricity (equal to 500 megawatts) which floods eastern Piedmont more fluid.
The plant will have a positive impact, as estimated by the high voltage spa, primarily on the electricity bills of households and businesses, which will save a total of around 60 million euros a year. Without considering the benefit in terms of landscape that the new structure has brought: the laying of 95 kilometers of design poles between the rice fields of Vercelli and Lomellina has meant that all the old stretched lines (215 kilometres) supported by old pylons have been eliminated and useless.
Flavio Cattaneo, CEO of Terna, has also reached an agreement with the president of Anci, Piero Fassino: the agreement will allow Terna and the municipalities involved to share the future high voltage lines and the places where to lay the pylons, all in the compliance with regulatory and urban plans.
Terna estimates that the major works carried out in recent years, from the Sapei submarine cable between Sardinia and Tuscany to Matera Santa Sofia in the South, have contributed to considerably reducing the extra costs due to the clogging of the market with a benefit of 5,4 billion.
Investments in the electricity grid (approximately 8 billion euro since 2005) have brought about an alignment of prices in the market areas almost everywhere with the national average price. Sicily is still missing with the Sorgente-Rizziconi line and Veneto with the Dolo-Camin project between Venice and Padua.
