{"id":145263,"date":"2010-01-06T12:36:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T17:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=5368"},"modified":"2010-01-06T12:36:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T17:36:33","slug":"europe-eyes-e30b-green-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/145263","title":{"rendered":"Europe Eyes \u20ac30B Green Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/cleantech.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cleantech\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/policy.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Policy\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/43-billion-dollar_North_Sea_060110.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5369\" title=\"43-billion-dollar_North_Sea_060110\" src=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/43-billion-dollar_North_Sea_060110.jpg\" alt=\"43-billion-dollar_North_Sea_060110\" width=\"107\" height=\"81\" \/><\/a>Earlier this summer a German-led consortium announced a plan to develop a string of utility-scale solar farms across the Sahara desert,<a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2009\/11\/400b-desertech-industrial-initiative-takes-shape\/\" > for more on that<\/a>, see here.<\/p>\n<p>Now,\u00a0 a group of nine European countries is looking north, to the wind-swept North Sea to meet their growing renewable energy needs.<span id=\"more-5368\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The nine countries, which include\u00a0 France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden as well as Germany, have teamed up to launch a \u20ac30 billion ($43 billion) 6,000-kilometers grid network that if ever develop will connect existing renewable energy projects to a single grid network.<\/p>\n<p>In announcing the project German Economics Minister Rainer Bruederle said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The aim is a rapid extension of renewable energy and its integration into an operating electricity system.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The project is expected to take a decade to complete. A feasibility plan is expected to be unveiled later this year, according to a story posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthtimes.org\/articles\/show\/302359,43-billion-dollar-north-sea-green-energy-plan-unveiled.html\" >on the EarthTimes.org<\/a> Website.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/jtJJeZkiVso\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this summer a German-led consortium announced a plan to develop a string of utility-scale solar farms across the Sahara desert, for more on that, see here. Now,\u00a0 a group of nine European countries is looking north, to the wind-swept North Sea to meet their growing renewable energy needs. The nine countries, which include\u00a0 France, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}