The INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems started this month with the project MedTSO. The project proposes to evaluate the viability and the technical impact of the construction of several electric connections between the south of Europe and the Norte of Africa.

The study intends to evaluate the connections through a submarine cable and by land, in two main corridors. Considering the east corridor, it will analyse connections from the European east zone evolving connections between Egypt and Turkey and the Balkans through a submarine cable and also by land. On the west corridor, it will analyse the connections between Portugal and Spain with Morocco and Algeria and Italy with Algeria and Tunisia.

The connections yet to implement can be developed in an Alternate Current or a Continuous Current and can demand the reinforcement of the network infrastructure onshore in several countries, particularly in the Balkans area.

All these aspects will be evaluated according to different scenarios, regarding production and consumption of electric power in the Mediterranean basin.

The INESC TEC’s researchers responsible for this project, that was stablished with the Association of the Electricity Transport Network Operators of the Mediterranean basin – MedTSO, are Leonel Carvalho and João Peças Lopes.

The researchers mentioned in this news piece are associated with INESC TEC and UP-FEUP.