The Swedish government has unveiled a plan to develop offshore wind power projects with 20TWh to 30TWh of annual clean energy generation capacity.
The state has identified areas in the Gulf of Bothnia, Baltic Sea and North Sea and has marked these for development.
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By GlobalDataReuters reported that the government plans to increase this capacity to 120TWh in the future.
The Swedish Energy Agency has been asked to identify suitable areas to develop a further 90TWh of offshore capacity.
Swedish Energy and Digitisation Minister Khashayar Farmanbar said: “Today we point out areas that enable offshore wind power of 20-30TWh annually.
“At the same time, we are taking further steps to enable a total electricity production from the sea that corresponds to 120TWh, almost as much electricity as the whole of Sweden uses in one year today.
“We must have a lot of electricity, cheap electricity, fast. This is how we secure the electricity supply, enable the conversion and secure good electricity prices in the long term.”
Sweden currently uses nearly 140TWh of electricity a year, with this amount expected to increase in the future as the country phases out the use of fossil fuels in its transport and industrial sectors.
Swedish Climate and Environment Minister Annika Strandhäll said: “We are now accelerating the expansion of offshore wind power by pointing out a number of suitable areas far out to sea.
“At the same time, we instruct the Swedish Energy Agency to propose even more areas.”
Last year, the UK-based Green Investment Group (GIG) acquired the rights for the Kattegatt offshore wind farm in Sweden.
The wind project will generate enough electricity to power more than 95,000 homes in the region once operational.
It is also expected to reduce Sweden’s total carbon emissions by up to 49,000t a year.