First Minister to meet EC Co-ordinator on Scotland’s proposal for a North Sea Supergrid
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Reinforcing Scotland’s leading position in the development of renewable energy, First Minister Alex Salmond is to meet Georg Wilhelm Adamowitsch, now appointed by the EC to co-ordinate Mr Salmond’s own proposal last year for a North Sea Supergrid.
The two men are likely to talk the same language. Both are former economists.
Scotland has up to 25% of Europe’s potential for wind, wave and tidal energy generation. The First Minister’s proposed supergrid would export Scotland’s surplus renewable energy to Europe.
Mr Abramowitsch has been appointed to progress the development of Europe’s power supply after the establishent of a North Sea / Baltic offshore supergrid was prioritised in a strategic energy review last year.
The Scottish Government has already published its own report on a version of this supergrid, seeing it as a key development harnessing Scotland’s resources for the good of Europe and growing its domestic economy.
Mr Salmond is said to be pleased to see that the strengths of Scotland’s potential contribution to European energy security have been recognised. A spokeperson for the First Minister says: ‘Never before have we been so well placed to become the green energy capital of Europe’.
These steps forward are important for Argyll, one of the main potential suppliers to Scotland of wind, wave and tidal energy and with the planned development of the former Vestas plant in Campbeltown into marine wind turbine production.
The photograph above, reproduced under the Creative Commons licence, shows Denmark’s offshore wind turbine farm at Middelgrunden near Copenhagen – the first such wind farm to be installed.
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January 29th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
As a former resident of Oban, I wonder if anybody has investigated the possibility of harnessing the latent power of the tidal flow at the Falls of Lora at Connel?
Here, surely, is a source of energy waiting to be developed.
Come on, the new Scottish Government. It can be done, so make it happen!