The Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Denmark, Great Britain, Belgium and France, which have access to the North Sea, are planning to build a huge wind farm. Luxembourg and Ireland will also join them.
The planned date is 2050. The total capacity of the wind farm will be 300 gigawatts, which will provide electricity to 300 million households, writes BB.LV. These will be thousands of offshore wind turbines with a height of more than 100 meters. The current will be transmitted via cables to huge distribution stations, which will be located at sea on floating platforms, writes BNR.bg.
Distribution stations will be interconnected, and at any moment the generated current can be transported to countries that currently need it.
Georg Zachman, an expert at the Brügel Institute in Brussels, notes that the project provides not only an offshore wind farm, but also the concomitant distribution of electricity between the participating countries. The estimated price of 7 euro cents per kilowatt-hour will compete with nuclear power plants. But it should be kept in mind that the economic benefit can lead to a threat to ecosystems.
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