Sweden today (Tuesday) fired the starting pistol for more than a gigawatt of offshore wind off its coasts.

The nation’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced approval for state-backed utility Vattenfall to build its 1.2GW Kattegat Syd and Nordic developer OX2 to construct the first 400MW phase of its Galatea-Galene development, which is part-owned by Ikea parent group Ingka.

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The projects will deliver about 6.5TWh