The North Seas Countries' Offshore Grid Initiative - Initial ... - Benelux

stakeholders have joined forces, which indicates the topic’s importance on the European
agenda.
The initiative aims at coordinating all efforts towards necessary investigations on a)
technical and grid planning questions, as well as b) identifying market and regulatory
barriers and c) proposing measures to streamline the permitting process, in order to
assess the economic interest of offshore grid development.
The MoU breaks down the overarching objective into a set of deliverables to be taken
forward by three Working Groups, see Figure 1-1, each investigating the different issues a)
to c) mentioned above, needing different experts. This structure was chosen to ensure
fast information flows and commonly agreed results.
Figure 1-1 NSCOGI Working Structure
Each Working Group is composed of members representing the ten countries’ energy
ministries, the regulatory authorities, the TSOs and the European Commission. Two
ministerial representatives chair each Working Group. A programme board consisting of
the Working Group leads, representatives of ENTSO-E, ACER and the Commission
coordinate the work of the Working Groups.
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