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Patrice Cahart: "Despite its ugliness, offshore wind power can limit the damage of onshore wind power"

2023-04-26T16:49:38.749Z


FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE - Nine European states, including France, met on April 14 with the aim of increasing offshore wind power capacity in the North Sea. According to former senior civil servant Patrice Cahart, although expensive, offshore wind power is necessary to compensate for the deficits...


Patrice Cahart is a former student of the ENA.

Former senior civil servant in the Ministry of Finance.

He is notably the author of

La Peste éolienne

(Éditions Hugo

&

Cie, 2021).

FIGAROVOX.

- Nine European states, including France, Germany and Belgium, met on Monday

April 14 for the second edition of the North Sea Summit.

Ultimately, the objective is to make the North Sea the “largest green power station in Europe”, by quadrupling the capacities of offshore wind power by 2030. How do you view this

?

Is the given goal achievable

?

Patrice Cahart.

-

Although ambitious, I think this goal is not unreasonable, because the southern part of the North Sea is not deep, which makes it easy to fix wind turbines to the bottom.

In addition, there is a large submerged rocky bank in the middle of this sea, called the "Dogger Bank", far from the continental coasts, which can accommodate forests of wind turbines without it being a problem.

The Dogger Bank interests Great Britain…

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Source: lefigaro

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