Poland & Slovakia: New gas connector between the two countries
The gas interconnector between Poland and Slovakia now connects the gas networks of the two countries, ensuring diversified supply routes.
The pipeline, with a total length of approximately 165 km, was a Project of Common Interest from 2013-2021 and has received more than €100 million of EU funding through the Connecting Europe Facility, which represents around 40% of the project costs.
The transmission system operators, Gaz-System and Eustream, as well as the Governments of Poland and Slovakia, cooperated effectively to ensure its completion.
Its completion marks a cornerstone of the North-South gas infrastructure corridor between the Baltic Sea, the Adriatic and Aegean Seas, the eastern Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea.
The project aims to decrease the EU countries' dependence on a single natural gas supplier, open access to new supply sources in Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, facilitate the market between Northern and Southern Europe and increase the integration and coordination of regional gas markets.
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