![]() ![]() See Ali Abunimah’s piece from March 2018, EU to supply electricity to Israeli settlements. Nexans Norway was selected in July 2022 as he preferred bidder for the award of the contracts for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of the two HVDC cable systems for the first phase of the interconnector. ER Editor: This ‘good news for Israel’ story takes on a somewhat different complexion through the lens of illegal Israeli settlements, which will be benefitting from this new energy supply. ![]() In January 2022, EU countries agreed to invest €657m in the project under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). The interconnector secured a €100m grant from the European Commission in July 2021. Its total offshore length is 1208 km (310 km Cyprus to Israel, 898 km Cyprus to Crete), while its onshore length is 25 km. At full deployment, the 500 kV interconnector will allow the transfer of 2,000 MW. ![]() The project, listed under the fifth EU list of Projects of Common Interest (PCI), is a multi-terminal high-voltage, direct current scheme which will connect the transmission networks of Greece, Cyprus and Israel, and will comprise three converter stations with sea-electrodes, interconnected by cables. Cyprus, Israel and Greece on Monday signed an initial agreement on laying the world’s longest undersea power cable linking their electricity grids. As a second phase, once the Cyprus to Crete project is completed, an electricity link between Cyprus and Israel will be constructed. Commissioning is scheduled by the end of 2026. Cyprus is the last non-interconnected EU member state. The European Union has recognised the cable as a "Project of Common Interest", categorising it as a project it is willing to partly finance.Greece and Cyprus have started building the first phase of the EuroAsia interconnector, which will consist of a 1,000 MW undersea cable connecting the electricity grids of the two countries via Crete. The Greek operator and Eurasia have been working closely to make sure the two cables link to each other efficiently, an IPTO official said. Greek power grid operator IPTO has started construction of the Crete-mainland part, seen concluding by 2023. It will cover three sections of the Mediterranean: some 310 kilometres between Israel and Cyprus, about 900 kilometres between Cyprus and Crete, and about 310 additional kilometres between Crete and mainland Greece. With a length of about 1,500 km and a maximum depth of 2,700 metres, it will be the longest and deepest subsea electricity cable to have ever been constructed, it said.Ĭalling the project a '2,000 mega-watt highway', Pilides said the first stage is expected to be operational within 2025. The cable will have a capacity of 1,000-2,000 megawatts (MW) and is expected to be completed by 2024, according to Israel's energy ministry. The involved countries are due to sign a tripartite MoU this week. The interconnector is planned to transmit power produced by renewables in North Africa to Europe. The project, called the Euro-Asia interconnector, will provide a back-up power source in times of emergency, said Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, who was in Nicosia to sign a memorandum of understanding with his counterparts.Ĭypriot Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said it marked "a decisive step towards ending the island's energy isolation, and consequently, our dependence on heavy fuels." The governments of Greece and Cyprus have signed separate Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with Egyptian authorities to link their power systems to Egypt’s via a subsea link. ![]() JERUSALEM, March 8 (Reuters) - Cyprus, Greece and Israel on Monday signed an initial agreement to build the world's longest and deepest underwater power cable that will traverse the Mediterranean seabed at a cost of about $900 million and link their electricity grids. ![]()
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