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EU Energy Network & Security
EU Energy Network & Security
One of the priorities of the Europe 2020 Strategy is sustainable growth to be achieved by promoting a more resource-efficient, more sustainable and more competitive economy. That strategy put energy infrastructure at the forefront of this effort by underlining the need to urgently upgrade Europe’s networks, interconnecting them at the continental level, in particular to integrate renewable energy sources.
The essential background to this is that EU Member States agreed in 2011 that:
- Europe’s energy infrastructure needs to be modernised and expanded; networks across borders need to be interconnected;
- there is a need to provide for alternative supply or transit routes;
- there is a need for alternative sources of energy, including renewables;
- no EU country should remain isolated from the European gas and electricity networks after 2015 or see its energy security jeopardised by lack of the appropriate connections.
