Terna, Italy’s national grid operator, has awarded Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) with a contract valued at over €28 million for preliminary marine survey and environmental characterization services for a new high-voltage direct current (HVDC) interconnector that will link Lazio and Lombardy.

NextGeo was awarded the contract as the lead partner of a temporary consortium (RTC), with an approximately 84% stake, which is composed of CONISMA (National Inter-University Consortium for Marine Sciences), Poliservizi, and CIBM (Inter-University Center for Marine Biology and Applied Ecology “G. Bacci” of Livorno).