Another Link in the Chain

摘要

The ongoing Mediterranean Power Pool project aims to interconnect the grids of the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. It will help increase security of supply in the southern Europe and North African/Middle East regions and, in theory at least, mean fewer power plant are needed to help meet the soaring growth in demand. The concept involves linking electric power grids from Spain to Morocco, through the remaining Maghreb countries, on to Egypt and the Eastern Arab nations, and from there up to Turkey. The ring would then link back into the European grid via Greece or through the newly interconnected Eastern European country grids. The interconnection between Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco will be upgraded from 220kV to 400kV.