Germany seeks to set up new wind power network with its North Sea neighbors

The German government said Monday that it wants to group up a caller powerfulness statement web to link its ain offshore upwind parks pinch those of its North Sea neighbors successful bid to destruct bottlenecks successful nan European power market.

Governments successful northwestern Europe are hoping that upwind powerfulness astatine oversea will supply a ample stock of their early clean energy needs. Germany successful peculiar needs to boost offshore upwind powered energy procreation to meet its eager extremity of shutting down each ember powered plants and generating 80% of its energy from renewable sources by 2030.

One large problem astatine coming is nan deficiency of powerfulness lines, which results successful bottlenecks that forestall upwind park-generated energy from reaching consumers and industries further inland.

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A vessel passes on offshore windmills group up successful nan North Sea adjacent Esbjerg, Denmark, connected Oct. 30, 2002. Germany wants to create a web of powerfulness lines to link nan country’s offshore upwind parks pinch those of its North Sea neighbors. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)

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Germany's system minister, Robert Habeck, said that by building much interconnectors astatine sea, his state will beryllium capable to pat further inexpensive energy from offshore upwind parks, including from European neighbors specified arsenic Denmark and the Netherlands.

This will besides boost information of proviso astatine times of precocious request and let Germany to export much renewable power erstwhile it has a surplus, he said.

North Sea nations past twelvemonth announced plans to massively summation offshore upwind powerfulness successful nan coming decades arsenic portion of an effort to combat ambiance alteration and go independent of fossil substance imports from Russia.