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4.4 Africa Europe Interconnection
The continued future development of the
economies of the European Community
member nations and others within the
larger European continent will require
extensive new electric energy resources.
In the coming century, until a new
energy resource or new energy conversion
technology can be brought into production,
the least expensive and most environmental
sound existing forms of electricity
generation will be used.
The economic advantage of importing
electric power from the Inga Project
on the Zaire River in comparison to
operating nuclear or coal plants in
Europe has been evaluated and discussed
in international conferences.
The interconnection between Egypt
and Zaire is a unique opportunity
to examine in detail for a real case,
the practical feasibility of an interconnection
between systems separated by very
long distances.
Egypt has already adopted the philosophy
of electrical interconnections with
neighbouring countries. Towards the
east, Egypt/Jordan interconnection
projection project is now under execution
and will be followed by the interconnection
of the five countries (Egypt, Jordan,
Syria, Iraq, Turkey). Towards the
west: Egypt/Libya interconnection
project is also now under execution
and is followed by Libya interconnection
with Tunisia then to Morocco. Morocco
will be interconnected to Spain by
a submarine cable in the Gibraltar
Straights while Tunisia will be interconnected
to Italy by a sub-marine cable to
Secily.
Thus the huge African hydroelectric
energy can be transferred to the European
Common Electrical Power Network via
the links Egypt-Turkey, Tunisia-Italy
and Morocco-Spain. This solution would
represent the ecological accepted
answer to Europe for the more and
more pressing problem of the greenhouse
effect, and would be a rightful investment
for the environment protection. In
fact, it would lead to a reduced use
of fossil fuel for electric energy
production in Europe. |
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