Ireland is among a group of eight European countries aiming to quadruple wind energy generation and develop “islands” linking offshore energy infrastructure.
As the Irish Times reports, the plans was outlined at a summit on Monday in the coastal Belgian city of Ostend, and extends from the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
Varadkar said Ireland was very glad to be part of the group, as there was a risk that "everything would happen in the North Sea, and we'd be kind of left out on a limb and then trying to connect in later," he told the newspaper.
“But this means as things get built out in the North Sea, we’ll be part of that,” he said. The North Sea is viewed as ideal for offshore wind as it is relatively shallow compared to the Atlantic.
Mr Varadkar told a press conference after the summit that Ireland aimed to build wind energy farms with the capacity to produce roughly five times the entire current national electricity demand.
He described it as a “huge economic opportunity”.
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