The conservation group Greenpeace has called on nations surrounding the North Sea to construct an electricity grid on the sea floor linking more than 100 proposed offshore wind farms. The grid, which would cost an estimated $29 billion to build, would help provide a steady supply of electricity as wind conditions fluctuate throughout the North Sea, Greenpeace said. The group said that millions of European homes could be linked to the grid with power generated by tens of thousands of turbines distributed among wind farms in British, German, Dutch, Danish, and Norwegian waters. The head of the European Union’s renewable energy commission called the plan “ambitious but realistic.” Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. Interior Department is moving ahead with plans to allow the creation of large wind farms off of the northeastern coast of the U.S.
Greenpeace Proposes North Sea Wind Farm Network
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