EURELECTRIC – CABLES
February 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN electricity federation Eurelectric is calling for wide-ranging economic assessments to be held into future plans to bury high or very high voltage power cables, rather than erect them above ground, because of cost and other concerns. In a formal statement, Eurelectric noted that the European Commission "sees undergrounding...as an increasingly promising technology for overcoming environmental/planning constraints on the construction of new electricity transmission lines." However, it warned: "This solution is currently very costly, (as ...
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