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PART II: LIST OF INFRASTRUCTURE PRIORITY CORRIDORS
AND AREAS IN THE ENERGY SECTOR 59
a) Priority Corridors
1. Northern Seas offshore grid ("NSOG") Developing an integrated
2. North-South electricity interconnections
in South-Western Europe (“NSI West
Electricity”)
3. North-South gas interconnections in
Western Europe ("NSI West Gas"):
Objective Member States concerned
offshore electricity grid
in the North Sea, the Irish
Sea, the English Channel,
the Baltic Sea and
neighbouring waters to
transport electricity from
renewable offshore
energy sources to centres
of consumption and
storage and to increase
cross-border electricity
exchange
Developing
interconnections between
Member States of the
region and with
Mediterranean third
countries, notably to
integrate electricity from
renewable energy sources
Increasing
interconnection capacities
for North-South gas
flows in Western Europe
to further diversify routes
of supply and increase
short-term gas
deliverability
Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany,
Ireland, Luxemburg, the Netherlands,
Sweden, the United Kingdom
Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland,
Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Malta,
Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom
Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, France,
Germany, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands,
Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom
59 Before this Regulation is adopted, the text of Part II of the Annex will be aligned with the
final text of the Annex I of Regulation XXXX/2012 on guidelines for trans-European energy
infrastructure, and repealing Decision No 1364/2006/EC, with the exception of the Priority
Oil Corridor.
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