According to Net Zero Watch director, Andrew Montford:
“Offshore wind generation is increasingly concentrated in a small number of huge windfarms. If someone takes out the undersea grid connections of just the ten largest, 6% of our electricity supply could be eliminated at a stroke, and nobody would know who had done it.”
In addition, 77% of the UK’s gas imports come by undersea pipeline from Norway, and are thus also at risk. With geopolitical tensions on the rise, it is clear that pipelines, undersea wires and interconnectors have become a critical vulnerability, and experts are calling for an urgent rethink.
Security expert Professor Gwythian Prins said:
"In time of ‘grey war’ the only secure energy sources are firm and domestic. That means onshore oil, gas and coal - starting with fracked gas. Our national security requires us to exploit those resources to the full, while giving the armed forces the wherewithal to defend energy assets - oil and gas rigs and pipelines and the Norwegian gas pipeline first and foremost - in the North Sea."
