OPINION: Adam Bruce, Mainstream Renewable Power

In 2006, I met a Conservative UK Member of Parliament — now a senior minister — to brief him on Airtricity’s ambitions for a European Supergrid.

“I hope you are not proposing giving the EU competency over energy policy?” he asked. “No,” was my response, “this is a huge opportunity for Britain to build a new offshore energy network and trade its electricity in an open EU market.” “Ah, we like that,” he replied.

Creating a single market in electricity remains the one great unfulfilled part of the European commitment to free trade and competition. I can sell any number of devices that run on electricity anywhere in the EU; as an employee of a European energy company,…

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