Nine countries sign declaration to turn North Sea into ‘Europe’s biggest green power plant’
Nine European countries have pledged to multiply the capacity of offshore wind farms in the North Sea by eight times current levels before 2050, turning it into what Belgium’s energy minister called “Europe’s biggest green power plant”.
“We are unlocking our offshore energy ambitions,” the Belgian energy minister, Tinne van der Straeten, said. “Coordination is absolutely essential. If each of the nine countries acts alone, we’ll collectively fail. Planning is at the core of everything.”-emitting fossil fuels, the nine countries aim to boost their combined North Sea offshore wind capacity to 120GW by 2030 and 300GW by 2050.
Several leaders also stressed the need to protect Europe’s offshore wind farms and their interconnectors from sabotage and espionage followingThe capacity targets represent a further doubling of goals announced at a similar four-country summit in Esbjerg,, in May 2022, three months after European energy markets were plunged into turmoil by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Netherlands and Britain announced plans for Europe’s biggest cross-border electricity link connected to an offshore wind farm, while the EU and Norway pledged to develop infrastructure to capture and store COBritain has 45 offshore wind farms producing 14GW, with plans to expand capacity to 50GW by 2030.has 30 producing 8GW, followed by the Netherlands with 2.8GW and Denmark and Belgium, both with 2.3GW.
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