Commission determined on the GSI

[Reuters]

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced plans to code captious vigor bottlenecks, including Cyprus’ constricted energy links to continental Europe.

Speaking astir the “Energy Highways” inaugural during her State of the Union presumption past Wednesday, von der Leyen said the Commission will work with governments and utility operators to accelerate projects that alleviate congestion successful Europe’s vigor infrastructure.

The Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), which would nexus Cyprus to Greece, is ranked 2nd connected the Commission’s database of 8 precedence projects. Officials said the inaugural aims to extremity Cyprus’ energy isolation and strengthen its transportation to the continental grid.

The different 7 projects are: integrating the Iberian Peninsula with France via the Pyrenees; enhancing vigor links among the Baltic states; expanding energy supply crossed the Balkans and neighboring eastbound nations; processing the North Sea arsenic an offshore interconnection hub; establishing a southern hydrogen corridor connecting the North Sea to the Med; gathering a southwestern hydrogen corridor from Portugal to Germany; and improving terms stability and vigor information successful SE Europe.