Ghana news briefing
Portugal, Morocco push for EU funds, private investors for power link
A crippling power blackout in Spain and Portugal in April 2025 exposed the Iberian Peninsula's limited electricity links with the rest of Europe, helping revive plans for a Portugal-Morocco link first studied in 2018.
Portugal and Morocco will ask the European Commission to consider a long-mooted power interconnector between the two countries as a candidate for EU funding, they said on Monday, while also exploring private-sector investment.
Portugal and Morocco will pursue two tracks simultaneously — seeking access to the EU's Connecting Europe funding facility, and testing investor appetite through a private-sector expression of interest process from grid operators and utilities.
This is a summary of the original articles listed below. Always read the source articles for the full context. GhanaSummary does not create or modify the news — we summarise and link to original publishers.
