JAKOB MARTINI & MICHAEL STENVEI
Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium are teaming up for a historic offshore wind push in the North Sea, aimed at freeing Europe from Russian energy and taking the European green transition efforts to an entirely new level.
The plans were revealed at a summit held Wednesday in the city of Esbjerg, where Mette Frederiksen and the heads of state from the three nations signed a historic declaration for multiplying offshore wind capacity in the North Sea by ten to at least 150GW by 2050. This would be enough to supply approximately 150 million households with green energy, requiring investments of more than EUR 134bn.
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