Europe to turn North Sea into 'green power plant'

Four European Union countries plan to speed up the continent’s green transition and help wean it off Russian energy imports through a large new project to build wind farms in the North Sea, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Wednesday.She said her country, together with Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, “want to increase total offshore wind capacity fourfold by 2030 and tenfold by 2050.”The plan is to provide energy to 230 million European households.The new wind farms will be built along the four countries’ North Sea coasts.The commission proposed a nearly 300 billion-euro package that includes more efficient use of fuels and a faster rollout of renewable power.