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Electricity ‘super grid’ could supply 500 million people

Electricity ‘super grid’ could supply 500 million people Belfast Telegraph  25 April 2009 * Print Print * Email EmailSearch Search GoBookmark & Share * Digg It * del.icio.us * Facebook * StumbleuponWhat are these?Change font size: A | A | AAn electricity ‘super grid’ could extend the potential for renewable energy from green sources right across Europe, it was claimed today.Irish Environment Minister and Green Party leader John Gormley said different conditions in different parts of Europe – and even North Africa – could provide energy to a potential market of 500 million people.

A Europe-wide link up could solve the problems of uncertainty of supply from sources such as wind and wave power.

He said: “With imagination, vision, determination – and with Europe’s help – our energy could be made up of solar energy from Seville, tidal power from Rathlin island and Torr Head; geothermal power from Reykjavik; hydro electric electricity from Norway; wind power from Denmark; wave power from the Kerry coast and biomass crops from Germany.”

Taking his inspiration from President Obama’s Jobs and the Green New Deal, he added: “An energy super grid is one element that could advance the Green New Deal – a proposal to create ‘green collar jobs’ for five million Europeans by mobilising 500 million euro of private and public investment over the next five years.”

Electricity ‘super grid’ could supply 500 million people – Environment, News – Belfasttelegraph.co.uk

April 27, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | ENERGY, EUROPE | renewableenergy, renewables