Press Release: Building the Energy Union: Key electricity interconnection between France and Spain completed

On 20 February 2015 Miguel Arias Cañete, the European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, together with Mariano Rajoy, the Prime Minister of Spain, and Manuel Valls, the Prime Minister of France, and with the participation of José Manuel Soria López, the Spanish Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism and Mario Monti, European Coordinator of the project, attended the inauguration of the Santa Llogaia – Baixàs power line.

This power line, a project of common European interest, doubles the existing electricity interconnection capacity between France and Spain, from 1400 megawatt to 2800 megawatt, and helps connecting the power system of the Iberian Peninsula to other European energy markets. The project has received €255 million EU support under the European Energy Programme for Recovery.

• Primary Source

ESO: Key source: Energy Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/energy-union/

ESO: Background information: Commission launches work on Energy Union, February 2015 http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-commission-launches-work-on-energy-union/

ESO: European Energy Programme for Recovery (EEPR) http://www.europeansources.info/record/european-energy-programme-for-recovery-eepr/

ESO: Background information: France, Spain agree to let more power flow between them http://www.europeansources.info/record/france-spain-agree-to-let-more-power-flow-between-them/

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