It furthermore underlined the need to modernise and expand Europe's energy infrastructure and to interconnect networks across borders, in order to make solidarity between Member States operational, to provide for alternative supply or transit routes and sources of energy and to develop renewable energy sources in competition with traditional sources.
Leag sí béim freisin ar an ngá le bonneagar fuinnimh na hEorpa a nuachóiriú agus a leathnú chun gréasáin a idirnascadh thar theorainneacha, chun dlúthpháirtíocht idir na Ballstáit a chur i bhfeidhm, chun foráil a dhéanamh maidir le bealaí eile soláthair nó idirthurais agus le foinsí eile fuinnimh agus chun foinsí in-athnuaite fuinnimh a fhorbairt in iomaíocht le foinsí traidisiúnta.