2023-04-24 16:48:00
What explains all this deployment of force is the arrival of nine European heads of state and government, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and a handful of captains of industry at the North Sea Summit . Prime ministers and president of Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway and Luxembourg gather to negotiate what must sign the future of the energy independence of Europe.
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Objective: to assemble all the economic, strategic, political, environmental and security pieces of a puzzle that will allow the North Sea to host the “largest green power plant in the world”, the leaders said in a joint statement. Their speech evokes a major industrial turning point. The goal pursued is as much climatic as geopolitical. According to the Heads of State, offshore fields are part of the green transition and free Europe from its dependence on Russian gas, “thus guaranteeing a safer and more independent Europe”.
All together, these countries represent 175,000 kilometers of coastline along which hundreds of offshore wind turbines could be planted. Of these thousands of kilometres, Belgium only deploys 67.”We are a small country in terms of size, but from a technological point of view we are giants”, exclaims Alexander De Croo enthusiastically. For the Prime Minister, the wind project which is being built a few tens of kilometers from Ostend has “enormous potential”. This will allow us to “regain control of our production”.
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This collective project aims to achieve a production of 300 Gigawatts for 2050, instead of the current almost 30. Which should be able to supply more than 300 million homes with electricity called “verte”. “These are investments of several billion euros” spread out “over decades”, recognizes the head of the Belgian government. “We have achieved more than anyone could have believed”. The Belgian liberal repeated his mantra on the need to work on industrialization and standardization.
”It will be a Belgian industry above all”, confirms Tinne Van der Straeten (Groen) in front of the Connector, the cable ship of the Ostend company Jan de Nul (JDN). For the Minister of Industry, Belgium will thus have the opportunity to share its expertise.
Emmanuel Macron touted the opportunity to redevelop “European expertise” while working onthe European assembly” wind turbines. For the French president, it is essential to “not to repeat the mistakes of the past when we imported the materials we needed for photovoltaics”. France will produce 40 GW, which will provide 20,000 jobs on French territory.
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