02/12/2021 (Agence Europe) – The member countries of the North Seas Energy Cooperation (NSEC) – Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands – renewed their political declaration and deepened their cooperation on Thursday 2 December. They did this to accelerate the pace of deployment of offshore renewable energy with the objective of reaching an installed capacity of at least 60 GW of offshore wind and at least 1 GW of ocean energy by 2030 and 300 GW of offshore wind and 40 GW of ocean energy by 2050. The energy ministers of these countries and the European Commissioner for Energy, Kadri Simson, have signed a new political declaration that sets out their agreement, among other things, to set up voluntary cooperation for joint cross-border and hybrid projects and to increase their levels of renewable energy interconnection. See the statement: https://bit.ly/3Em6Rf9 (DG)