Spain, Portugal and France have reached an agreement for
the energy interconnection
between the Iberian Peninsula and France itself, abandoning the Pyrenees gas pipeline project in favor of a new
Barcelona-Marseille connection
, a green corridor that
in the future may carry hydrogen
or but which at the moment will be used by gas.
This was said by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
"Spain has a regasification capacity that can cope with solidarity demands," he explained.
The interconnection will be dual and the Iberian Peninsula will receive electricity from France.
Macron announced that he will travel to Spain in December to finalize the new energy project with Spain and Portugal.
"This morning - Macron said - we had a meeting with Spain and Portugal on the interconnections and we closed a joint political agreement that provides for
the abandonment of the historic MidCat project
to promote a project on which we will work in the coming weeks" to "connect the peninsula. Iberian and build a
green energy corridor
between Portugal, Spain, France and the rest of Europe ".
"The goal - he added - is to work on an intensification of our electricity interconnection and to work on a hydrogen and renewable energy interconnection between Barcelona and Marseille", he highlighted, indicating that the project is an "important element of solidarity".