Grants totalling some €150m ($164.6m), awarded as part of the Connecting Europe Facility scheme, will go toward new electricity and gas sector projects – 17 of which are at the study stage and three under construction.
The projects, mainly in Central Eastern and Southern Eastern Europe, and the Baltics, are designed to boost energy security by "contributing to the completion of an EU energy market and increasing the integration of renewable energy" on the grid.
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