Offshore Wind Could Help Create 'Electric Shipping Highway' Across Europe, Study Says

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A whitepaper by Stillstrom, Baltic Energy Island and the Port of Roenne estimates that the roughly 37,000 cargo vessels passing Bornholm each year burn 3 million tonnes of marine fuel and emit 10 million tonnes of CO₂, and that full electrification of this traffic would require about 17 TWh of electricity annually, replacing roughly EUR 2 billion in fossil-fuel imports. The study introduces the concept of Offshore Power Zones — vessels charging from offshore wind generation at sea — and envisions these linked with electrified ports to form an “electric shipping highway” from the English Channel into the Baltic.