Britain and Netherlands Plan to Link Offshore Wind Farms
- National Grid and Tennet plan subsea link for wind farms
- Offshore wind is key to Europe achieving climate goals
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The U.K.’s National Grid Plc and Dutch power transmission operator Tennet Holding BV are developing a plan to link the two countries’ power markets via giant wind farms at sea.
The network managers want to use underwater cables to connect as much as 4 gigawatts of offshore wind farms to the power grids of both countries, a move that could open new markets to sell electricity and cut down on times when wind farms are shut off due to oversupply.