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Yes, 10 European countries bordering or close to the North Sea, including Germany, France,
the UK and Norway, have pledged $11.3 billion to expand offshore wind capacity by 2030.
Dan Jorgensen is the EU's energy commissioner and was in the German city of Hamburg today,
where the agreement was signed.
The most important part of this strategy of independence is to deliver more homegrown,
clean, affordable energy.
The North Sea has a huge potential.
We already produce a lot of offshore wind in the North Sea as you all know,
but we can produce much more.
It's a vast amount of power that they intend to generate 200 gigawatts of it will be wind farms connected to individual countries But a big portion of it is also going to be wind farms that are interconnected to a number of countries So they can sell electricity to wherever the electricity is needed most and the argument runs that this means That they'll smooth out peaks of demand across Europe and reduce prices for everyone.
Yeah, huge investment huge deal But why are these countries choosing to cooperate now?
I think they see benefits of working together in the North Sea.
Obviously they have their own territorial areas and the majority of the wind farms will be built by companies in individual countries.