Europe unites to build renewable energy ‘supergrid’
JAN 08, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023990
The Guardian : 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—Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden and Ireland and the UK—formally draw up a €30 billion plan to link their clean energy projects around the North Sea.
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