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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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] stoy 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Oh, how lovely. More power plants where we already produce almost all power in Sweden.