A £20bn project will connect more than 400 offshore turbines with high voltage subsea cables.
, some of them fixed to the seabed and some anchored to it with cables.
Mr Jackson said the priority was to build wind capacity for the oil and gas sector as fast as possible, and as it grows, then to use it to provide power over long-distance high voltage direct current subsea cables for onshore supply throughout Britain and for export. "With our partners we will accelerate access to green power and provide the infrastructure for the next phase of the North Sea's life."He told BBC Scotland: "We're comfortably in excess ultimately of 300 or 400 turbines. That's built out in phases, and in the first phase for the oil and gas demands.
There is vast potential in offshore wind, now that floating turbines are proving their potential when anchored in deep water. The new plan for a North Sea subsea power grid of cables could be an important step towards co-ordinating this effort.
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