I noticed, on a trip to East Crete, ierapetra a weird looking transmission line.
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has less insulators than a 150 kV line and more than a primary distribution 20 kV line, and only one lightning arrester wire. Normal150 kV single-circuit lines have 3 live wires horizontally and 2 lightning arrester wires above them. so could it be an old 66 kV (line, but on a metal pylon? (we used to have a couple of them but on wooden pylons). Here you can see a normal 150 kV double-circuit line pylon:
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live wires and one lightning-arrester wire above them. another question that arises is the underwater cable that will feed all of Crete: it is +- 500 kV DC, obviously 1000 A but if it transformed into 150 kV three-phase AC to connect to the Cretan grid, won't the ampacity be too large? I know for instance that 300 MW at 400 kV is 400 A, so 1000 MW (there will be two independent cables) would be more than1200 Amperes, at 400 kV three-phase ac (50 Hz)