#interconnector

Talks over the interconnector were taking place in Athens on Thursday, as President Nikos Christodoulides was meeting Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The tete-a-tete slated for 11am was focusing ...

Before the ink has dried on the government’s decision to approve connecting the electricity grids of Cyprus and Greece, the first warnings of its immense cost was made as ...

The government on Tuesday green-lit Cyprus’ participation in the Great Sea Interconnector – the commercial name for the mooted subsea electricity cable linking the island to Crete. The decision was announced ...

The cabinet will on Tuesday continue discussing the Great Sea Interconnector, as reports on Monday suggested the government is now grappling with the issue of whether the Cypriot state will ...

Good news on the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) front, but priority must now shift to implementing measures that will bring electricity prices down between now and 2030, when the GSI is ...

Edek on Wednesday called on the government to convene a meeting with political parties over the Great Sea Interconnector asdiscussions continue with stakeholders about the future of the project. The ...

Discussions regarding the regulatory framework for the Great Sea Interconnector connecting Cyprus to Crete will carry on “for as long as it takes”, deputy government spokesman Yiannis Antoniou said on ...

The Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) is both technically and financially viable and must go ahead, former finance minister and Disy MP Harris Georgiades said on Monday. He was speaking as ...

Cyprus should take the opportunity for the interconnector project or it will be left behind to burn mazut and struggle with its green transition, US ambassador to Cyprus Julie Fisher ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou and her predecessor Averof Neophytou on Friday exchanged differing opinions over the Great Sea Interconnector. Appearing on CyBC just minutes apart, Neophytou first on the radio ...

People “seem to forget what they said a year ago, two years ago, or three years ago” about the Great Sea Interconnector, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday. He was ...

Akel MP Irini Charalambidou has requested information from the government regarding possible financial ties between politicians and EuroAsia Interconnector Ltd, the former promoters of the mooted subsea electricity cable project, ...

The finance ministry reiterated on Thursday it’s not in a position to evaluate the mooted Cyprus-Greece electricity interconnector project as several parameters remain unknown, while the cost-benefit analysis provided ...

“The exploitation of the natural gas deposits, the pipelines, the electricity interconnectors, the terminal stations and everything else we are discussing in the meeting, will remain, yet again in the ...

Decisions regarding the mooted electricity connection between Cyprus and Greece need to be taken sometime in the next few weeks, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou stressed on Tuesday. He was referring ...

The European Commission has given assurances that it will use “all the diplomatic means at its disposal” in order to protect the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) after reports this week ...

A research vessel conducting surveys of the seabed for the proposed electricity cable linking Greece and Cyprus was this week being monitored at a distance by the Turkish navy, but ...

Chairman of the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (Cera) Andreas Poullikas has handed in his resignation, which reportedly has nothing to do with major energy issues still pending, the finalising of ...

The idea for a subsea energy cable that would connect the power grids of Cyprus, Israel and Greece (Crete to be more precise) was first presented in 2012 as a private ...

Nicosia is said to be wary of undertaking the potential geopolitical risks of the Great Sea Interconnector, complicating the mooted project beyond questions of financing, local media reported on Tuesday. ...

Decisions will be taken and the interconnector linking Cyprus’ power supply to Greece and Israel will be clarified within August, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Monday. The minister’s ...

The way the Great Sea Interconnector is being promoted “bears serious risks and many problems,” associations affiliated with the Cyprus Employers & Industrialists Federation (Oev) related to energy matters have ...

By the first week of September Nicosia will respond in writing to Brussels regarding the latter’s request to be refunded for the €69 million in EU grants already disbursed for ...

There is a “very real danger” the government will have to pay back EU funds it received for the Vasiliko liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal, which is now being investigated ...