4.1.10

The renewable European super-grid?

The Guardian's Alok Jha reports today on a North Sea-centric plan for a €30bn answer to providing Europe with more renewable energy…

 

'It would connect turbines off the wind-lashed north coast of Scotland with Germany's vast arrays of solar panels, and join the power of waves crashing on to the Belgian and Danish coasts with the hydro-electric dams nestled in Norway's fjords: Europe's first electricity grid dedicated to renewable power will become a political reality this month, as nine countries formally draw up plans to link their clean energy projects around the North Sea.'