{"id":51916,"date":"2026-07-08T10:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/51916\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:12:10","slug":"one-landfall-to-go-in-france-for-first-interconnector-to-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/51916\/","title":{"rendered":"One landfall to go in France for first interconnector to Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danish power cable manufacturer and installation firm NKT has completed two of the three landfalls in France for this country\u2019s first submarine electricity interconnection to Spain.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/One-landfall-to-go-in-France-for-interconnector-to-Spain-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Source: NKT viaLinkedIn<\/p>\n<p>Delivered by Inelfe, a joint venture between the Spanish transmission system operator (TSO) Red El\u00e9ctrica and the French counterpart R\u00e9seau de transport d\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 (RTE), the Biscay Gulf Interconnector will have a total route length of 400 kilometers, of which 300 kilometers is underwater, connecting Cubnezais in France and Gatika in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Seen as\u00a0\u201clandmark\u201d, the project will boost the interconnection capacity between the Iberian Peninsula and rest of continental Europe.<\/p>\n<p>NKT reported earlier this month that it had completed two of the three landfalls in France, connecting the 400 kV offshore HVDC cables to the onshore part of the interconnector.<\/p>\n<p>The project is expected to become operational in 2028 when it will almost double the electricity exchange capacity between France and Spain to 5,000 MW.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777366941_446_admin-ajax.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"OE logo\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Power Your Brand With Offshore Energy \u2935\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Take the spotlight and anchor your brand in the heart of the offshore world! <\/p>\n<p>Join us for a bigger impact and amplify your presence at the core hub of the offshore energy community!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danish power cable manufacturer and installation firm NKT has completed two of the three landfalls in France for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22373,556,22374,17],"class_list":["post-51916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-biscay-gulf-interconnector","tag-france","tag-nkt","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}