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The share of delayed projects for new electric lines has increased, partly due to public opposition, states the European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators. Local communities involved ask for more transparent and inclusive decision processes.

Thousands of kilometres of increasingly sophisticated and cutting-edge transmission lines, in other words supergrids, are on the EU agenda. Projects for high voltage links between countries are already being implemented. But works are often blocked or slowed down because of opposition locally.