CESI

CESI, the Italian engineering consultancy, was the expert advisor to TuNur Ltd on selecting the optimal interconnection point on the Italian Tyrrhenian coast for the planned 2,000 MW Tunisia–Italy HVDC interconnector. CESI's analysis underpinned the choice of landing point that was subsequently approved by Terna S.p.A. and that has been retained through successive ENTSO-E TYNDP cycles as the European terminus of the link at Montalto di Castro in Lazio. CESI's scope addressed Italian grid integration considerations — feasibility of landing 2,000 MW of dispatchable solar generation into the Italian network at an optimal point on the Tyrrhenian coast — and complemented marine engineering work by Intertek Metoc on the offshore cable routing. Public disclosure of CESI's involvement was made in TuNur's February 2013 industry article in The Energy Industry Times, where the firm is described as "expert engineering consultants" responsible for the work informing the Italian interconnection point selection. This is a development-stage engineering consultancy engagement; no contract value or deliverable breakdown is stated in the cited source. CESI's interconnection-point output is the basis of Terna's 2,000 MW grid connection solution and the project's subsequent ENTSO-E listing (Project 283).