This 175,000 kilometers of coastline adding countries from North Seafrom france Norway and included United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, will be the largest according to their current leaders offshore wind farm The nerve center and baptismal certificate are only located in Belgium, the country with the least coastline of the so-called “North Sea coalition”, as it has 67 kilometers of coastline. But considering there’s a landlocked ninth member in the alliance –Luxembourg–, the initiative of these nine European countries should be understood as a declaration of support for wind energy, which is one of the main pillars of success. climate neutrality in 2050
“Our coastline is humble. However, in relation to our population, our offshore wind farm ranks second in terms of European performance.” Alexander de Croo. The first corresponds to Denmark, but European leadership in offshore wind infrastructure corresponds to the United Kingdom with 14 gigawatts (GW). It is followed by Germany with eight GWs, while the Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium have around two or three GWs. From this situation, with a total of 30 GW by 2022, the North Sea coalition proposes to jump to 134 GW by 2030 and 300 GW by 2050. multiply by ten total power generated by offshore wind farms in these nine countries last year and power 120 million homes by 2030.
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (EC) from Ostend, said: “The occupation of Ukraine precipitated an energy crisis in which it was necessary to resort to quick alternatives to guarantee supply to citizens and industry.” This challenge was effectively answered; The next goal is to achieve sufficient development in renewable energy to achieve decarbonisation. “The European House is the house of renewable energy and development. green hydrogen and wind energy“, added.
Alternatives to Russian gas
“With the support of our partners and allies, we got rid of our dependence on Russia in energy,” said the German Chancellor. Olaf Schölz. Thus, it implied the accelerated search his government had undertaken for alternatives to Russian gas. Norway played an important role here as an emergency replacement for the fossil fuel shipments that had stopped coming from Russia. Now it will continue to play through renewable energy sources, the prime minister assured. Jonas Gahr StoreSigned before the “christening” of the mega wind farm in Ostend Von der Leyen an agreement to join the “green alliance” of the community bloc from a non-community country location.
In the North Sea coalition there are two countries outside the EU, Norway and the United Kingdom, which will mandate the signing of numerous and very detailed protocols for wind farm development.
Regulations will need to be harmonized between countries with large differences in terms of energy plans. By 2030, Germany has set the target of providing 80% of the energy consumption of Europe’s most populous country from renewable energy sources, with wind energy being the mainstay. France, a European atomic power, contributed 0.5 GW of the total 30 GW indicated last year.
artificial island
“Every country has our plans. But the common goal is shared: clean energy and climate neutrality,” he said. Emmanuel Macronvon der Leyen in the look he shares with Belgian de Croo, German Scholz and Danish Mette Frederiksen.
An artificial island will be set up 45 kilometers off Ostend as a connecting node between the different branches of the offshore wind farm. It will be one of the most relevant points of the project, but not the only one. To achieve the recommended 300 GW performance, provide different levels of connectivitywith offshore connecting platforms, the safety of which is one of the park’s biggest challenges.
The seeds of the coalition that was formally signed in Ostend were born eleven months ago in Denmark. Esbjergbetween Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark. A few months later, in September 2022, there was a sabotage that disabled the German-Russian Nord Stream gas pipeline with coordinated explosions on three of the four pipelines. The events triggered alarms and eliminated the possibility of an energy “reunification” between Moscow and Berlin. It occurred in the Baltic waters, near the Danish island of Bonholm. There are many versions circulating in the media about its author – including an alleged pro-Ukrainian conspiracy. What is out of the question is that sabotage exposes the fragility of energy infrastructures as a critical target of first order.