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Roughly 50,000 km of electricity transmission lines will have to be built or upgraded between now and 2020, says the proposal (Photo: European Commission)

EU to call for paradigm shift on energy

by Andrew Willis, Brussels,

Europe's creaking energy infrastructure must be massively overhauled if the bloc is to meet its energy needs in the year 2020 and beyond, a report by the European Commission is set to say.

Outdated and hugely fragmented, the EU's energy grid should be replaced by a "Single European Energy Network", says a draft copy of the commission's communication on Energy Infrastructure Priorities seen by EUobserver.

"European energy infrastructure is aging and at the same time facing new ch...

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Roughly 50,000 km of electricity transmission lines will have to be built or upgraded between now and 2020, says the proposal (Photo: European Commission)

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