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TenneT transports offshore power to inland users Also to expand activities in Dutch North Sea
FRANKFURT, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Germany boosted its offshore wind power capacity last year, topping its own targets, as Europe’s largest economy drives its push into renewables, data from grid company TenneT GmbH showed on Wednesday.
The Berlin government has raised offshore capacity targets to 20,000 MW by 2030 in recognition of the immense role that offshore wind will play in the decarbonisation of electricity generation.
Last year offshore wind power operators in the German North Sea increased capacity by 3.4% to 6,679 megawatts (MW), TenneT said, overshooting an interim government target for 2020 of 6,500 MW.
By Rachel Morison and William Mathis (Bloomberg)
Britain’s electricity grid operator is pushing deeper into the turbulent waters of the North Sea, seeking to support the government’s $27 billion program to build up the offshore wind industry.
Executives from National Grid Plc meet government officials on Thursday to discuss how a growing tangle of projects offshore can be best connected to the network on land. At the moment, wind farms at sea are each linked individually with separate cables. Combining some of those links could cut the amount of new infrastructure needed in half.
The work is crucial for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government to deliver on commitments to eliminate fossil fuel emissions by 2050. Ministers put offshore wind at the heart of plans to cut carbon emissions from power generation, and the current system of grid connections would leave an expensive and unmanageable tangle of wires reaching from wind farms at sea to the shore.