European Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen describes Portugal as a “key country” to increase energy connectivity with the rest of the European Union (EU), while ensuring he is also in contact with France to unblock initiatives.
Visiting Portugal at the end of this week, I am responsible for stating that “interligações will also be part of the discussions” coming next time.
“And, (…) however, Portugal is certainly a key country and in the Iberian Peninsula, in the league with France and across France, it is clearly not at the top of our agenda,” Dan Jørgensen said in statements in Lusa and other European countries in Brussels.
Ahead of a visit to the country, which arrives on the sixth day in Lisbon, the European commissioner for protection says that this is “one of the topics” that will be “discussed with the Portuguese government”, ready “for a debate with the French minister and the French government”, at a high altitude on the Iberian Peninsula It is an energy island with good connectivity to the EU, named after the French opposition to more interleague.
Last December, the European Commission was investigating how future “energy highways” would be calculated as a result of the EU, the electricity link from the Pyrenees to the Iberian Peninsula and the Portuguese hydroelectric pipeline in Germany.
“The need for a better connection with Europe […] It’s something we also approach through our “Energy Highways” list. We are therefore very driven forward on this energetic highway, and the connection to the Iberian Peninsula is of course one of them,” together with Dan Jørgensen.
Energy interconnectors enhance the security of the electrical system or facilitate the supply of electricity between countries, enabling grid stabilization, integration of better renewable sources (such as wind and solar), and a reduction in reliance on domestic combustion.
“It’s not about security, we don’t normally concentrate weapons, which is obviously also important, but without energy security we don’t have security and that means we have to step up our efforts,” said the European Commissioner for Protection.
In the Comissão Europeia, he shared Portugal’s view on the need to build more energy connections in the EU, specifically to enter the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of the bloc, in an effort to have a dialogue with France.
In April last year, the Spanish peninsula showed the need to increase the resilience of the EU’s energy supply, at a height where the Iberian territory has 3% less connectivity than the rest of the university.
The Portuguese government now wants to prevent the increase of Portugal’s energy interligação with the rest of the EU by 15% by 2030, through the construction of interligações.
The EU has exactly the interconnection goal of at least 15% by 2030.
The strengthening of energy links between Portugal and Spain and the EU has been controversial for several years, but despite the French ceticism, it has never progressed completely, although it is important to increase energy security, reduce fuel dependence, reduce costs if necessary and facilitate the transition to renewable energy.
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