The cable was laid from the Nexans Skarerak, a Norwegian cable-laying vessel. The total length of the cable between Pescara and Cape Jaz is 455 kilometres, of which the subsea section is 433 kilometres.
In early 2015, Terna laid 136 kilometres from the Italian coast, and in early December last year, the laying of 157 kilometres of cable from the Montenegrin side, from Cape Jaz towards Italy, was completed.
During the cable's laying, work was carried out on the seabed of the Adriatic Sea at depths of up to 1.2 thousand metres, with a nominal DC transmission capacity of one thousand megawatts (MW).
The entire project for the energy interconnection of Montenegro and Italy should be completed by the end of next year.
It was previously announced that an optical cable for telecommunications would be laid simultaneously and in parallel with the energy cable.
In early October last year, the laying of the land-based section of the cable on the Montenegrin side began, a stretch of approximately six kilometres from Cape Jaz to the Lastva transformer substation.
As part of this project, the Montenegrin Transmission System (CGES) is building the Lastva substation and the 400-kilovolt Lastva–Čevo–Pljevlja transmission line.
The construction of the Lastva substation will be invested in to the tune of 38.5 million euros as part of the main project, while the investment for the power lines from Lastva to Čevo will amount to 28.5 million euros, and for the power line from Čevo to Pljevlja, 39 million euros.
The Ministry of Sustainable Development issued a building permit to Terna Montenegro at the beginning of the year for the construction of a substation in Lastva Grbaljska, which is part of the project to connect Montenegro's and Italy's energy systems.
This converter station, worth around 80 million euros, will be located in the immediate vicinity of the Lastva Grbaljska substation, which is being built by CGES as part of the same project. An identical converter station is also being built on the Italian side near Pescara.
The contract for connecting Italy and Montenegro with a power cable was signed in mid-November 2010, and the total value of the project is around one billion euros.