Interesting headline “UK and Norway agree North Sea cooperation” just in from the newswire (aka my Yahoo news alerts) via Windpower. Another progressive move towards creating more renewables?
Terje Riis-Johansen (Norway minister for petroleum and energy) and Charles Hendry (UK energy minister) haVe announced that the two countries will work together on developing North Sea renewables.
In terms of geography this makes perfect sense – Norway is the UK’s next door neighbour if you go far North enough where all the wind is. Collaborative projects also encourage mutual learning through the sharing of expertise, and with the body of water separating the countries being relatively small – hundreds rather than thousands of miles separate Scotland’s northeastern mainland and Norway’s southwestern coast, the work will be (I imagine) concentrated fairly well and be a focal point for building further in the future.
