It is a bucolic landscape of Provence that a new high-voltage electricity line, 65 kilometers long, will soon cross, to connect Fos-sur-Mer to Jonquières-Saint-Vincent, in Gard.
The electricity transmission network manager, RTE, is planning an investment of 300 million euros to build this additional 400,000 volt highway.
An essential expense to support the energy transition of the Mediterranean port, which wants to become the first low-carbon industrial zone in France, therefore hungry for electrons.
In the country but even more so on a European and global scale, “obsolete and unsuitable”
electricity networks
have even become
“a major obstacle to the energy transition”
, warns the specialist Norwegian firm Rystad Energy.
Certainly, projects for new power lines are multiplying in France, in Europe and throughout the world.
At the end of November, the European Commission unveiled an action plan to accelerate the deployment…
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