Seven European companies active in the electricity transmission industry, including system operations development, financing, installation, operation and maintenance of such systems, and/or of renewable energy generation signed on December 9 a preliminary cooperation agreement aiming at bundling competences and strengths to actively contribute to the development of future offshore grid infrastructure, more specifically in the North and Baltic Seas, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea.

3E, Alstom Grid, CG Power Systems, CMI, DEME Blue Energy, Eurogrid International (a holding company of Elia and IFM), and SAG are each in their specific areas actively involved in enabling the development and integration of renewable energy, especially offshore wind and wave and tidal energy, in regard of the European energy and climate protection targets.