Brendan Devlin, team leader for North Sea energy projects in the EC's Directorate-General for Energy, warned that the uncoordinated planning of EU nations needs to change if the meshed network – connecting offshore wind farms with more than one country and each other – stands any chance of becoming a reality.
The EC is drawing up major proposals, to be advanced under next year's Dutch EU presidency, over how a meshed grid could be built across the North Sea, saving up to €5.1bn
