Swedish developer Eolus Vind has announced plans to develop an offshore wind farm in Sweden’s Gulf of Bothnia with a capacity of up to 1.7GW.
Nice! We (Sweden) just got 700 MW of new onshore wind, too. Article from the same website OP posted:
https://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/1851231/sweden-almost-700mw-new-onshore-wind-comes-online
Oh, how lovely. More power plants where we already produce almost all power in Sweden.
I am allways concerned about off shore power, it gives a huge opening to a foreign actor to stealthily attack them under water…
But as long as they wont replace existing powerplants and just export the surplus, I am fine with it.
They aren’t just towers in the dark. These things have all sorts of sensors on them. I doubt even a submarine is going to stealthily destroy these.
The power grid has way, way more weaknesses that would be way more impactful dont require a submarine to execute. Capitalism has guaranteed we have basically zero spare parts for large transformers. A single person can easily destroy these and do more damage in a war time scenario.
If I sabotaged your offshore power, I’d say that I didn’t and have my navy produce a report that concluded that whales did it.