Cable Route Engineering

By 21 April 2022, Red Eléctrica had completed the detailed routing and engineering design for the Peninsula–Ceuta interconnection, defining an underground and subsea cable route that minimises environmental and visual impact. The design specifies a 9-km underground land section on the Andalusian side using existing urban roads, a horizontal directional drilling landfall near Torre Nueva beach, and a 58‑km subsea section across the Strait of Gibraltar, as well as the Ceuta-side landfall at Chorrillo car park and 1.7‑km underground route to the new 132 kV Virgen de África substation.