Wind energy – Sweden
Last week the Swedish government announced plans to commission the state-owned transmission system operator (TSO) Svenska kraftnät to expand the transmission network to areas within Sweden’s maritime territory.
This will be key to connecting offshore windfarms to the grid.
As Per Bolun, the Swedish Minister for the Environment said: “We have a rapid expansion of renewable electricity in Sweden and to meet the climate challenges, we need to accelerate the expansion further. Offshore wind power has an enormous potential to produce Swedish renewable electricity that replaces coal and oil around Europe.”