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North Sea = Powerhouse of Northwest Europe
Official Press Release TenneT:
The North Sea is becoming the powerhouse of Northwest Europe – Offshore wind energy as a central lever for the energy transition
TenneT increases transmission capacity to more than 26,000 megawatts in the German and Dutch North Sea by 2030 / 2020 North Sea "wind harvest" exceeds previous year by more than twelve percent
In 2020, the transmission system operator TenneT has transmitted around 22.76 terawatt hours (TWh)*) of wind energy from the German North Sea to onshore, thus achieving a new peak value. The 2020 result exceeds the previous year's value (20.25 TWh) by 12.4 percent. This means that, in purely mathematical terms, the annual demand of around seven million households, three quarters of a million more than in the previous year, can be covered with green energy. The share of electricity transmission from the North Sea is a strong 17.2 percent of total wind power generation in... ... More: Official Press Release TenneT
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