Claude Turmes, a Green MEP and architect of the North Seas Offshore Grid (NSOG) initiative, tells Recharge that “if the new UK government persists in its tough negotiating strategy by making the EU’s energy transition difficult then Brussels will have to rethink its grids co-operation with the UK”.

The UK’s Brexit vote in June’s referendum has raised industry questions over the impact on the UK’s clean energy and climate policies, which for decades have been closely bound together with the wider objectives of Brussels.

Turmes,