Europe Unites to Invest $40 Billion in Huge Off-Shore Renewable Energy Super-Grid

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This month Europe’s first electricity super-grid dedicated to renewable energy will become a political reality, as part of Europe’s plan to meet its target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 20% below 1990 levels by 2020.

Nine countries will draw up formal plans to link up a super-grid of powerful clean energy projects strung out all around the North Sea in order to ship renewable power to the mainland.

The huge new undersea transmission cable will connect up Scotland’s off-shore wind turbines off the coast of Scotland, and solar from Germany, hydro power from Norway and wave power off the coast of Belgium and Denmark.

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Europe Unites to Invest $40 Billion in Huge Off-Shore Renewable Energy Super-Grid : CleanTechnica