{"id":484181,"date":"2025-10-08T23:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484181\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T23:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:35:11","slug":"france-blocks-maritime-concession-for-france-uk-power-interconnector-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484181\/","title":{"rendered":"France blocks maritime concession for France-UK power interconnector project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reuters) -French authorities on Wednesday denied an important maritime concession for the Aquind electricity interconnector project, effectively halting progress on the planned high-voltage link between France and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">While the project received environmental approval in July, the concession required a national-level recognition of public interest, which was not validated, the Seine-Maritime prefecture said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;We are surprised by this decision, given the growing need for interconnection identified at the European level, particularly between France and Great Britain, and the policies implemented in this respect,&#8221; said Martin Dubourg, Aquind director for France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">While presenting a risk for the project, the decision does not call into question its relevance or eventual completion, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">With a capacity of 2 gigawatts, the interconnector is expected to transmit over 17 TWh of electricity annually between France and Great Britain, according to the project&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Alban Kacher; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Reuters) -French authorities on Wednesday denied an important maritime concession for the Aquind electricity interconnector project, effectively halting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[160384,2000,299,36,75508,160383],"class_list":{"0":"post-484181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-concession","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-french-authorities","13":"tag-public-interest"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115341172763074606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}