The Greece-Cyprus-Israel Nice Sea Interconnector “will allow us to export in addition to import power”, mentioned the President and CEO of ADMIE Manos Manousakis, talking on the 2nd Regional Dialogue of Europe on the Center East and the North Africa (MEFED 2024), held in Thessaloniki.
In keeping with an announcement by ADMIE, Mr. Manousakis and the Vice-President and Basic Supervisor of Know-how, System Growth and Technique Ioannis Margaris, throughout their positions, centered on the vital function of worldwide interconnections for the power transition of Greece and Europe.
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“Final week we determined to attract up the ultimate research for {the electrical} interconnection with Saudi Arabia which can proceed within the coming months,” he mentioned and added that “after all there may be additionally the Greece-Egypt interconnection, a non-public undertaking with the implementation physique of the Kopelouzos Group which we help from a technical perspective”.
He additionally mentioned that “in Greece's power combine, clear power has already reached 60% and we now have cuts in electrical energy era from RES”.
“We even have very formidable plans to develop offshore wind farms, which suggests there will probably be a stronger want for exports. That’s the reason we’re planning a sequence of latest worldwide connections”, added Mr. Manousakis.
Mr. Manousakis additionally mentioned that these tasks could make it doable to switch enormous quantities of “inexperienced” power from the Mediterranean to central Europe, the place the key consumption facilities are positioned.
“This will probably be mutually helpful for all economies concerned,” he added.
In keeping with the ADMIE announcement, throughout his intervention, the Director Basic of the Ministry of Vitality, Commerce and Trade of Cyprus, Marios Panagidis, referred to the necessity to interconnect the island, so as to obtain its integration into the European electrical energy grid and to finish its power isolation .
Given the formidable European objectives for power and the local weather, Mr. Panagidis characterised interconnections as infrastructures which can be completely crucial for the continent's power transition.
Within the case of Cyprus, as he mentioned, based on the ADMIE announcement, {the electrical} interconnection with the remainder of Europe, by Greece, will contribute to the discount of electrical energy costs, the safety of the island's provide and the “greening” of its power combination.
As well as, the announcement states that the panel, held with the participation of chief European directors and the Deputy Minister of Electrical energy and Renewable Vitality of Egypt Sabah Mashaly, highlighted the necessity to pace up interconnections each between EU states and between Europe, the Center East and North Africa.
With regard to the interconnections launched within the wider area, Mrs. Mashaly, based on the ADMIE announcement, singled out the Greece-Egypt GREGY interconnection, which is deliberate to switch enormous quantities of “clear” power from RES to the European system, by of Greece.
ADMIE Vice President Ioannis Margaris made a particular reference to the Greece-Germany electrical interconnection, Inexperienced Aegean Interconnector, saying that “the Operator is maturing the Greece-Germany electrical interconnection and could have finalized the preliminary research of the undertaking by the top of 2024”.
Mr. Margaris talked about that it is a very giant undertaking for which ADMIE is in open dialogue with all of the events concerned, such because the Directors of Slovenia, Austria, Germany in addition to with suppliers, so as to collectively acknowledge the technical prospects , the wants of neighboring methods and to proceed with its design.
“It is likely one of the few multi-terminal electrical interconnections presently being developed worldwide and is a technological cutting-edge undertaking,” he added.
On this foundation, Mr. Margaris, based on the announcement, mentioned that ADMIE has confidence and know-how for tasks of this scope, as a result of expertise he has gained from the very demanding island interconnections that he has applied within the Aegean in recent times.
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