GENI is an ambitous strategy that would connect global energy grids together. The website provides a wide range of maps and information about global energy grids on a country-by-country basis. Renewable resources figure prominently into the overall strategy.

A key value to this website lies in the fact that it enables everyone to see and understand energy grids.

From GENI – “GENI’s mission is to conduct research and to educate world leaders and the public about the critical viability of the interconnection of electric power networks between nations and continents, with an emphasis on tapping abundant renewable energy resources, what we call ‘the GENI Initiative.’ Our research shows that linking renewables between all nations will mollify conflicts, grow economies and increase the quality of life and health for all. This is a strategy rooted in the highest priority of the World Game simulation developed by Dr. Buckminster Fuller three decades ago.”

David Lindsay writes in Malta Online that that country will inter-connect to the European power grid. The work is supported by funding from the European Union – “Through the amendments to the Commission’s original proposals, Malta’s funding allocation has now trebled to at least e20 million. The new project, Electricity interconnection Malta-Italy, has been added to the list of projects to be funded by the remaining unspent portion of the EU budget.”

UNder what is termed the ‘Malta-Italy’ energy project, the consortium had applied for a piece of the 3.5 billion Euro the EU has made available for energy related projects.