The blasting of the Nord Stream gas pipes has radically changed the threat landscape.
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Berlin The North Sea is to develop into the “power plant of Europe”, by 2050 offshore wind farms with an output of 300 gigawatts (GW) are to be installed – this corresponds to the output of 300 nuclear power plants. However, it is unclear how the protection of offshore wind farms against sabotage is to be organised.
The operators of offshore wind farms see a need for action. “The growing importance of offshore wind power for the power supply system is not reflected in the concepts for the protection of offshore wind farms. In this respect, we have no concept in Germany,” said Jörg Kubitza, Germany boss of the Danish wind farm operator Ørsted and chairman of the Federal Association of Wind Farm Operators Offshore (BWO), the Handelsblatt.
“At the moment it is still completely unclear where our duties end and where the duties of the security authorities begin,” he added. Politics is way too slow. “At the moment, a wind farm operator doesn’t even know which authority to call in an emergency. There is no regulated procedure,” criticized Kubitza.
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