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Cyprus presents one of the Eastern Mediterranean’s most striking energy contradictions. It possesses commercially promising offshore gas fields, yet its electricity system remains isolated from the European grid, dependent on imported fuels and increasingly unable to absorb all the solar power generated on the island.
For Nicosia, therefore, the central question is not simply how much gas can be extracted. It is whether Cyprus can convert offshore resources, electricity cables and strategic geography into durable diplomatic influence—without allowing energy to deepen the political divisions already shaping the Eastern Mediterranean.
