France and Spain will double its capacity in June trading of electricity, thanks to a new record triple buried line, symbolically inaugurated on Friday in Montesquieu-des-Albère (southern France) by the Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and French Prime Minister Manuel Valls.
A French worker and a Spanish worker connected to noon in the underground tunnel (64 Km, a record) two wires that represent the new line, causing its lighting blue.
The two heads of government, who praised this “technological marvel”, discovered after a commemorative plaque. After that they gave speeches before hundreds of guests from the two countries.
“This project is an important step in achieving the objective of the European Union energy, ie the creation of a true internal market energy, “said Mariano Rajoy, stressing that it is” a project of paramount importance for the future of Europe. “
” We can say that there Pyrenees in boosting the prosperity of France and of Spain, “stressed the president of the Spanish government.
Valls paid tribute to” the councilors who fought “to achieve” the buried power line preserving our landscapes. “
” This interconnection spoke for 25 years, but since 2008 and the decision of governments, the process was fast, “said Dominique Maillard, chairman of the Electricity Transmission Network (RTE) directory company that manages the public transport sector electricity in France.
At first, it was proposed building height this power line project which produced numerous protests by locals and environmentalists, before the governments of the two countries decided in 2008 that the line would be buried.
“Three years of work and 700 million investment to make this connection of all records were needed,” Maillard recalled, who attended the ceremony along with his counterpart Spanish, Folgado José Blanco, president of Red Eléctrica de Spain.
The line for the European Union, partially funded, is 64 km long between Baixas (French department of Pyrenees Orientales) and Santa Llogaia in Gerona. Widely surpasses that until now was the longest, the Tokyo, 40 Km.
Besides the central tunnel dug 8.5 km in the Pyrenees, is covered on both sides of the segments border and converter stations at both ends.
Provide an output of 2,000 megawatts of direct current for the VSC technology and allow to double the capacity of the Franco-Spanish interconnection, bringing to 2,800 MW. The technology called VSC allows an investment in 50 milliseconds of the current flows.
Essays are already being made for very high voltage line, which will be fully operational in June.
This is the fifth interconnection line between France and Spain, and the first that has been built for over 30 years.
The French President François Hollande, and Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, will meet with Rajoy in Madrid next month in a section devoted to energy interconnections between the three countries summit.
After the ceremony, Rajoy, Valls and Miguel Arias Cañete, European Commissioner for Energy, also This, they moved to Castle Peralada, near Figueras, to participate in a meeting and a luncheon will also attend the Catalan President, Artur Mas.
He, who organized the November 9 non ofical referendum on Catalonia Indpendencia, despite opposition from Madrid and was declared not in conformity with the Constitution, had not met with Rajoy since 30 July.
Valls was then moved to Argeles to attend a ceremony at the monument of the Withdrawal. “I’m happy to participate in these important ceremonies on the withdrawal, exile” from Republicans after the Spanish civil war, said
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