Supergrids, Caspian Gas Pipeline Listed as EU Energy Priorities
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The European Union outlined today its energy infrastructure priorities for the next two decades, paving the way for aid for supergrids to integrate renewable energy and routes to deliver natural gas from the Caspian Sea.
The strategic “corridors” for the transport of electricity, gas and oil will help the 27-nation EU meet its climate-protection goals and boost the security of energy supply, reducing its dependence on Russia. Based on this map of priorities, the EU will in 2012 identify concrete projects that require urgent development, the European Commission, the bloc’s regulator, said in a statement in Brussels.