Energy: Plans ready for "Supergrid" Companies from Norway and nine EU member nations have presented plans for an offshore grid which will distribute electricity generated by Norwegian wind farms to Europe, the Financial Times reports.
The plans for this "Supergrid" call for generating large amounts of wind power generated electricity in the North Sea, according to the newspaper. Norwegian Statkraft and its partners German Siemens and Hochtief, together with French Areva will be operating under the umbrella of "Friends of the Supergrid" (FOGS), NRK reports, quoting Financial Times. In December last year, nine EU Member States, including the UK and Germany, signed a political declaration for the "North Seas Countries Offshore Grid Initiative". Last month Norway signed the declaration, whose aim is to develop policy to advance offshore interconnection in Europe. The concept of the Supergrid was first launched a decade ago and it is defined as "an electricity transmission system, mainly based on direct current, designed to facilitate large-scale sustainable power generation in remote areas for transmission to centres of consumption, one of whose fundamental attributes will be the enhancement of the market in electricity". FOSG will be run by an Executive and directed by the Board of members. Membership will be kept to a maximum of 20 companies and aims to have both an industrial and geographic cross-section, with its base in Brussels. (NRK/FOGS) Rolleiv Solholm
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 09:00
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