INTERCONNECTORS
Understanding
interconnectors
With post-Brexit energy trading arrangements
still unresolved and Europe's connectivity lagging
expectations, Fieldfisher energy experts David
Haverbeke, Lis Blunsdon and Yohanna Weber,
discuss why more attention needs to be focused on
critical power infrastructure.
NETWORK /
22
/ SEPTEMBER 2019
I
nterconnectors – the
physical structures that
enable energy to flow
between networks – are
among the least visible
and consequently least
talked about constituents of the
EU's energy sector.
Effectively managing the
complex network of cross-bor
-
der interconnector cables and
pipelines that make up Europe's
highly integrated energy net-
work is a major challenge for EU
regulators.
The regulators' job is to en-
sure that Europe's energy mar-
ket operates as efficiently and
sustainably as possible and in
the best interests of EU consum-
