European Commission: Response to Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Evaluation

SupergridEurope has responded to the European Commission's consultation on evaluating the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) - the EU's common financing programme to strengthen cross-border energy infrastructure. 

SupergridEurope highlights the importance of having a common financing mechanism for developing electricity grids. However, one third of the electricity projects have been delayed and only 23 of the 130 projects monitored by ACER (the EU Agency for Cooperation of Energy regulators) have received CEF funding grants so far. 

"Although Europe is home to the most interconnected power system in the world, we are lacking behind in de developing and deploying innovative grid technologies and the high-capacity grid technologies needed to support a modern power system with high shares of intermittent wind and solar generation", SupergridEurope writes in its submission.

Read our full response to the consultation here.