BRUSSELS – France and Spain’s link to carry power across the Pyrenees mountains launched on Friday is one step towards a grand EU plan for the single energy market the European Commission will work towards relentlessly, the EU’s energy and climate boss said.The joint project by RTE, a unit of French utility EDF , and Spain’s Red Electrica will double French-Spanish interconnection capacity to 2,800 megawatts (MW), equivalent to the output of around three nuclear plants. “This will not be an isolated project,” Climate and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete said in a statement issued in Brussels. The Commission will …read more
Source: AsiaOne
