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Prime Minister David Cameron is backing plans to explore linking up green energy projects in the North, Baltic and Irish Seas.
It was announced that Energy Ministers will work together through the North Seas Offshore Grid Initiative and share experience with Ministers in the Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan to ensure planning, market, regulatory and technical challenges are properly addressed and the right framework created for industry to invest in future projects.
An electricity supergrid could take green electricity produced in one country to another through thousands of kilometres of sub-sea cables. Wind farms built out at sea could also be connected to a number of countries.
The plans could help Europe meet its ambitious green energy targets and help Europe’s energy security, by balancing some of the challenges of using wind energy, including intermittency and the inability to store electricity.
Energy Secretary Chris Huhne said: "Europe’s future lies in green energy and Britain wants to work with other countries to make the most of the clean energy potential in and around the North Sea."
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