Thanks; sorry I didn’t reply sooner, I normally only look at the first page of my comments to see if I have replies.

> But existing lines from there are nowhere large enough to take all that power, you will have to build lines from Milan and others all the way inside Europe.

Really? Okay. All I can do is look at maps like this one:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/7-Modelled-AC-transmissi...

Which look, to my completely non-expert eye, like a decent size grid already exists.

I know that picture doesn’t contain enough info even though this isn’t my domain, but it represents the limited level I’m coming from.