The Netherlands and Britain plan to construct what can be Europe’s largest cross-border electrical energy hyperlink linked to an offshore wind farm, their vitality ministers stated on Monday, a part of efforts to spice up vitality safety.
The “LionLink” interconnector will have the ability to switch 1.8 gigawatts (GW) of energy to Britain from a Dutch wind farm, or the identical quantity of electrical energy produced in Britain to the Netherlands, they stated in a press release forward of a leaders summit on vitality in Ostend, Belgium.
The hyperlink, being developed by Britain’s National Grid and Dutch electrical energy community operator TenneT, will transfer sufficient surplus energy between the nations to energy the Dutch province of Zuid-Holland, or the British cities of Birmingham and Manchester mixed, the ministers stated, with out specifying the route of the cable.
“This new connection further boosts energy security and energy independence in Europe,” Dutch Energy Minister Rob Jetten stated in a press release.
Britain’s vitality minister Grant Schapps stated the nations had been “sending a strong signal to Putin’s Russia that the days of his dominance over global power markets are well and truly over.”
Britain and the Netherlands presently have one energy interconnector, the 1GW BritNed hyperlink.
The new venture is a part of a broader pledge the governments of 9 nations across the North Sea will make on Monday, to develop renewable vitality within the area as they attempt to keep away from a repeat of their over-dependence on a single overseas supply like Russia.
The nations’ leaders will decide to quickly constructing wind farms and growing vitality “islands”, or linked offshore inexperienced energy technology websites, in keeping with a draft of their summit declaration seen by Reuters.
The nations, which additionally embrace Germany, France and Norway, intention to develop a mixed 120 GW of offshore wind capability by 2030, the draft stated.
(Reporting by Kate Abnett and Julia Payne; Editing by David Holmes)
