Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-002389/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Borja Giménez Larraz (PPE), Pilar del Castillo Vera (PPE)
To encourage Member States to interconnect their installed electricity generation capacity, in Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, the EU set a target for electricity interconnections of at least 15 % by 2030.
What is more, the affordable energy action plan stresses that ‘more needs to be achieved as regards interconnections, grid infrastructure, energy system integration and system flexibility to further upscale integration of cheaper and cleaner energy sources’.
It is vital that the most isolated electricity systems, such as Spain’s, are interconnected. An interconnected system would reduce the risk of sudden supply cuts and make it easier to better manage the increasing levels of variable renewable energy forms, such as wind and solar.
At the start of 2025, as many as eight countries – including Spain – had yet to reach the 10 % target set for 2020.
At the moment, two interconnection projects are under consideration: TR 276 Navarra-Landes and TR 270 Aragón-Atlantic Pyrenees. Both, initially planned to be up and running in 2030, have been delayed until 2036 and 2041 respectively.
What steps does the Commission intend to take to speed up Spain-France projects under consideration through the Pyrenees?
Submitted: 13.6.2025