North Sea Island Winds Rising

Artificial islands to boost off-shore wind energy

March 30, 2017 (elector)

“Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands have put forward an ambitious plan to build a large Wind Power Hub in the North Sea. At the heart of the plan is the development of one or more artificial islands with interconnections to countries bordering the North Sea…[Three transmission system operators (TSOs) TenneT B.V. (Netherlands), Energinet.dk (Denmark) and TenneT GmbH (Germany) agreed to develop the 100,000 MW Wind Power Hub with] infrastructure companies and fellow TSOs…The so called Power Link Islands would connect many wind farms to the mainland…[E]conomies of scale would result in significant cost reductions…” click here for more

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