Wind-fuelled ’supergrid’ offers clean power to Europe
5,000-mile network could cut entire continent’s carbon output by a quarter
By Paul Rodgers
Published : 25 November 2007
An audacious proposal to build a 5,000-mile electricity supergrid, stretching from Siberia to Morocco and Egypt to Iceland, would slash Europe’s CO2 emissions by a quarter, scientists say.
The scheme would make the use of renewable energy, particularly wind power, so reliable and cheap that it would replace (...)