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Italy-Montenegro HVDC link - Cepagatti converter station

HVDC links key role

in decarbonization

Giovanni Cerchiarini (*) - Head of International Operations,
Terna

now, frost and blackouts knocked in the last century, with temperatures several degrees
down Texas in the last weeks of below freezing for a prolonged period, causing
February 2021. The US state, linked to enormous distress to citizens. As temperatures dropped
the sunny images of cowboys’ more and more, many people turned on their domestic
horseback riding in the desert reported heating, trying to protect themselves from the
Sby the most iconic filmography, has exceptional cold that hit the area. As a consequence,
become the symbol of the disasters that climate electricity demand rose well beyond the levels expected
change can cause. The traditionally warm and sunny for the season. At the same time, the freezing weather
state was struck by a snow and ice storm unprecedented put a large part of the power generation park out of

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