Croatian state-owned gas transmission system operator Plinacro will
get4.825 million euro ($5.274 million) in grant funding from the EU in
support of a project for the construction of a gas interconnection with
Slovenia, the European Commission said on Tuesday.
The funding, which will go for studies on the first stage of the Bosiljevo
- Karlovac - Lucko - Zabok - Rogatec interconnector project, is part of a 217
million euro financial backing key trans-European energy infrastructure
projects, mainly in Central and Southeastern Europe, the European Commission
said in a statement.
In total, 15 projects were selected following a call for proposals under
the Connecting Europe Facility, an EU funding programme for infrastructure. The
selected projects will increase energy security and help end the isolation of
member states from EU-wide energy networks, while contributing to the
completion of a European energy market and the integration of renewables into
the electricity grid, the Commission said.
($=0.9163 euro)
(SeeNews)