Resources, capacities and corridors for energy imports to Europe

Abstract

Two main activities of the EC FP7 REACCESS project (Risk of Energy Availability: Common Corridors for Europe Supply Security) applied a systematic approach to collect the main characteristics of energy supply corridors starting from mining activities in exporting regions up to the import infrastructures and capacities of EU27+ countries. The aim of the present paper is to summarise identified information on import potentials and the possible corridors for the EU27+ energy supply of the future. This information is used as new starting point for the energy system modelling in the REACCESS project.