On Monday 1 September, the European Commission approved the addition of five cross-border projects in the field of renewable energy to the official list of CB RES projects. There are now thirteen projects eligible for financial support under the CB RES window of the CEF Energy programme.
New projects include the Liivi Bay offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, which is expected to reach 1 GW of installed capacity and contribute to the energy transition in Estonia and Latvia, as well as the Utilitas Eleja-Jonišķis wind park that spans the Latvian–Lithuanian border, with an expected installed capacity of 200 MW.
Secondly, the CORES project aims to pave the way for the future deployment of floating offshore wind turbines in Portugal, in cooperation with Luxembourg, which will help to unlock up to 10 GW of offshore wind energy.
MedGen is a north-south cooperation project with the aim of installing 10 GW of solar and wind power in Algeria and Tunisia, with links to Italy; Twin Heat aims to decarbonise the district heating systems of the twin cities of Słubice (Poland) and Frankfurt (Germany).
The adopted list will now be submitted to the European Parliament and the EU Council for a two-month period of scrutiny (extendable for a further two months) before it will be officially published in the Official Journal of the EU.
The next call for CB RES projects to obtain status and join the list opened on Tuesday 2 September.
To see the CB RES projects: https://aeur.eu/f/i8e (Original version in French by Pauline Denys)