The EU has awarded €720m from the Connecting Europe Facility to link the Baltic energy grid with the rest of the Europe, helping to bring renewable energy to the region from all over the bloc.
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced the funding for the project together with the leaders of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
She said most of the money will go to a new interconnector in the Baltic Sea called the ‘Harmony Link’.
“It will reduce the region’s over-dependence and over-reliance on a single source of energy imports by connecting it in full harmony to the rest of the European Union. It also looks into the future,” Von der Leyen said.
“The new offshore energy grid will bring electricity from renewables to all countries around the Baltic Sea.”