The authorities believes that the implementation of the initiatives in query within the Baltic Sea space would have unacceptable penalties for Sweden’s protection.
Sweden has rejected plans to construct 13 offshore wind farms within the Baltic Sea, citing security considerations.
The farms had been to be positioned off the coast of the Åland Islands, within the north, all alongside the east coast to Öresund. The authorities believes that the implementation of the initiatives in query within the Baltic Sea space would have unacceptable penalties for Sweden’s protection.
Swedish Defense Minister Pål Jonson mentioned at a information convention that wind farms would make it more durable to detect and shoot down missiles utilizing Sweden’s Patriot batteries within the occasion of a battle.
Only yet one more wind farm has been accredited for building alongside the Scandinavian nation’s east coast. The authorities has already given the inexperienced mild to 2 offshore wind farms: Kattegat South and Galene on the West Coast.
Now the Poseidon wind farm off Stenungsund on the west coast has additionally been given the inexperienced mild. This is a most of 81 wind generators that may contribute 5.5 terawatt hours per 12 months, in response to Romina Pourmokhtari, Sweden’s minister for local weather and surroundings.
Poseidon is the third offshore wind challenge to get the inexperienced mild since 2022. An extra 10 purposes are nonetheless awaiting a authorities resolution.
The resolution to reject purposes for wind farms has raised questions on how Sweden will meet its plans to double its annual electrical energy manufacturing over the subsequent 20 years.
To obtain this purpose, the Swedish authorities hopes to develop nuclear vitality. The purpose is to have one other 2,500 megawatts of nuclear energy by 2035 and 10 new reactors a decade later, however critics say demand is anticipated to extend quicker than it’s attainable to construct new reactors.
