(ANSA) - BRUSSELS, JAN 24- EU member states gave the green light to 200,000 euros to finance the study for a power line connecting the municipality of Somplago (Udine) with the Austrian village of Wuermlach, in Carinthia, the European Commission announced. The funding is part of the EU programme to support trans-European infrastructure, Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), which aims to promote the integration and competitiveness of the European energy market. The project, led by Alpe Adria Energia, consists of an electricity power line between Italy and Austria with a voltage of 220 kilovolt (kV), buried on the side of the road. The goal is to increase the cross-border energy transfer capacity by 300 megawatts (MW). The Twenty-eight members of the EU therefore approved the proposal made by the EU Commission to strengthen the CEF budget with an additional 800 million euros in order to support studies to carry out 14 projects: seven for electric power, two for smart networks, two for cross-border transport of C02, and three for gas. (ANSA).