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Grid situation
Interconnection lines exist across the borders of all
the Mediterranean countries exist, with the exception
of Israel. Nevertheless, the power systems around the
Mediterranean basin are still split into three or four
separated asynchronous 65 zones [49]:
• The Northern Mediterranean countries are synchronously
interconnected within ENTSO-E/SCR,
which, since 1997, is interconnected with Morocco,
Algeria and Tunisia after the first Morocco-Spain
submarine interconnection was commissioned.
• Turkey officially requested a connection to
ENTSO-E/SCR in 2000, but further improvements
of the Turkish system are still required before it is
in line with ENTSO-E/SCR standards.
• The Mashreq-Libya pool combines eight countries:
Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia,
Palestinian Territories, and Iraq.
• Israel and Palestinian Territories, which is an island
grid.
The most important existing bottlenecks are located
between Greece and Turkey, Turkey and Syria, and between
Tunisia and Libya. Additionally, the Net Transfer
Capacity (NTC) remains weak across many borders.
65 Please note that only the Northern Mediterranean countries are synchronously interconnected. A true integrated market with all
countries operating synchronously is not seen as realistic in the next 10-20 years.
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Additionally, the inter-Mediterranean electrical exchanges
are quite weak, especially between the
Maghreb countries, despite the strong interconnections
and a history of cooperation. The only link that is
fully functional is the Spain-Morocco one.
F.III Mediterranean Offshore
Grid to be driven by RES
development
The analysis for Northern Europe assessed an offshore
grid driven by the development of renewable
energy sources (RES) (i.e. offshore wind). To interpret
the results in the Mediterranean context, the expectations
for RES development are investigated in this
paragraph.
F.III.I Introduction
Large scale exploitation of renewable energy sources
in the Mediterranean will be mainly based on wind
power, solar photovoltaics (PV), and concentrated
solar thermal power (CSP) plants. These three renewable
energy technologies appear to have the greatest
growth potential.
table 15.1: OveRview OF wind pOweR develOpment and scenaRiOs FOR 2020 and 2030 in mediteRRanean
region
new capacity in
2010 (MW)
Wind capacity in
2010 (MW)
Wind capacity
(2020)
Wind capacity
(2030)
North 4,143 37,195 101,480 139,684
EU countries 4,100 37,125 99,400 135,534
Non-EU countries 43 70 2,080 4,150
South East 528 1,339 9,250 20,400
Turkey 528 1,329 8,000 18,000
Other South East 0 10 1,250 2,400
South West 213 950 9,000 16,700
Algeria-Egypt-Libya 120 550 6,500 12,700
Other South West 93 400 2,500 4,000
total 4,884 39,484 119,730 176,784
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