{"id":186723,"date":"2025-10-09T00:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/186723\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T00:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:15:08","slug":"france-blocks-maritime-concession-for-france-uk-power-interconnector-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/186723\/","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":186724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[82245,819,82243,59,57,58,50,82244,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-186723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-concession","tag-france","tag-french-authorities","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-public-interest","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}