Europe is investing 240 billion euros in electricity transmission, writes Jutarnji list on Wednesday, stating that a new network will be built towards Serbia and BiH, and Croatia’s trump cards are the interconnections Ernestinovo – Sombor and Lika – Banja Luka.
In continuation of preparations for the complete rejection of Russian gas from its own energy needs, the European Union, with the help of countries that are not currently its members, plans to increase the capacity of its electricity transmission network by 2040 through 141 investments with a total estimated value of 240 billion euros.
As stated in the associated plan of the European Association of Transmission Network Operators (ENTSO-E), of which the Croatian Transmission System Operator (HOPS) is also a member, the capacity of transmission lines, cables and other equipment for power transmission across the Old Continent would increase by 142 gigawatts of electricity and 43,000 new kilometers of network with 1.6 million new jobs as one of the consequences of these investments.
The idea of the European electricity transmission operators, whose plan called TYNDP 2022 was put into public discussion on Monday, is to rapidly connect the growing sources of electricity production from the sun and wind to the grid and thus replace gas as a fuel in electricity production, but and as a source of heating.
This means that TYNDP is part of the big European Green Plan with the stated goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 14 metric tons per year by 2030 by strengthening the network.
“One of the main benefits of addressing system needs is connecting more consumers to more producers, allowing European countries to exchange electricity to replace expensive thermal generation with cheaper ones, thus reducing Europe’s dependence on gas. Gas-based electricity generation would decrease by 75 terawatt-hours per year by 2040, which is equivalent to 14 percent of gas-based electricity generation in the EU in 2021,” according to the plan of the European Association of Transmission Network Operators, which brings together 38 European transmission operators. electricity.
Among them are operators from countries that are not members of the EU, which is important for the investments that HOPS must make within the framework of the Association’s plan.
Namely, out of 141 investments from the aforementioned plan, the holder of two is HOPS, but in cooperation with operators from other countries. It is about the construction of a new 400 kilowatt interconnection Ernestinovo – Sombor in cooperation with an operator from Serbia and the strengthening of the Rijeka – Split network with a branch for BiH, i.e. a new 400 kilowatt interconnection Lika – Banja Luka, which requires cooperation with an operator from BiH, writes the journalist Morning newspaper Vedran Marjanović.
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