Offshore Wind

IN DEPTH: Grid needs joined-up thinking

A joined-up, “meshed” grid is one of the most obvious ways to bring down the cost of the UK’s offshore wind programme, yet there is no agreement on how — or even whether — it will ever happen.

Siemens’ Matthew Knight, right, with David McVeigh of Harland and Wolff, in front of the substation for the Gwynt y Môr wind farm
Siemens’ Matthew Knight, right, with David McVeigh of Harland and Wolff, in front of the substation for the Gwynt y Môr wind farm
  • Karl-Erik Stromsta in London
Published 6 February 2013, 11:49Updated 26 September 2016, 14:18
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