ENERGY

Nine EU states around Mediterranean eye cooperation on renewables

Nine EU states around Mediterranean eye cooperation on renewables

Energy officials from nine EU member states in the Mediterranean said on Monday they wanted to turn the region into a renewable energy hub and would pursue ways to facilitate cross-border projects.

Representatives of the MED9 group – Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain – said they planned to conduct assessments of specific opportunities and challenges focused on turning the region into a green energy hub.

“We invite the European Commission to collaborate closely with us in undertaking this assessment, subject to resources availability,” energy ministers or their representatives said in a joint statement after meeting in Larnaca in Cyprus.

Cyprus and Greece on Saturday said they had agreed to cooperate on the creation of a subsea electricity cable linking continental Europe to Cyprus, easing the energy isolation of the island which still generates electricity primarily from carbon-belching heavy fuel oil. [Reuters]

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