Croatian state-owned gas transmission system operator Plinacro will get4.825 million euro ($5.274 million) in grant funding from the EU in support of a project for the construction of a gas interconnection with Slovenia, the European Commission said on Tuesday.
The funding, which will go for studies on the first stage of the Bosiljevo - Karlovac - Lucko - Zabok - Rogatec interconnector project, is part of a 217 million euro financial backing key trans-European energy infrastructure projects, mainly in Central and Southeastern Europe, the European Commission said in a statement.
In total, 15 projects were selected following a call for proposals under the Connecting Europe Facility, an EU funding programme for infrastructure. The selected projects will increase energy security and help end the isolation of member states from EU-wide energy networks, while contributing to the completion of a European energy market and the integration of renewables into the electricity grid, the Commission said.
($=0.9163 euro)
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