{"id":173429,"date":"2023-10-04T08:24:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T13:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/the-worlds-first-artificial-energy-island-just-got-the-go-ahead"},"modified":"2023-10-04T08:24:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T13:24:03","slug":"the-worlds-first-artificial-energy-island-just-got-the-go-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/the-worlds-first-artificial-energy-island-just-got-the-go-ahead","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s first artificial energy island just got the go-ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-first-artificial-energy-island-just-got-the-go-ahead2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s first artificial energy island has secured its environmental permit, so it\u2019s now all systems go in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elia.be\/en\/infrastructure-and-projects\/infrastructure-projects\/princess-elisabeth-island\">Princess Elisabeth Island<\/a> is a pioneering electricity grid at sea that\u2019s going to connect offshore wind farms to the Belgian mainland and also serve as a hub for future <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgrid.com\/stories\/energy-explained\/what-are-electricity-interconnectors\">interconnectors<\/a> with the UK and Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>Belgian electricity transmission system operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elia.be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elia<\/a> is the project\u2019s developer, and obtaining the permit, which Elia applied for in January 2023, is a key milestone. Construction will take over two years, from March 2024 to August 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s first artificial energy island has secured its environmental permit, so it\u2019s now all systems go in Belgium. Princess Elisabeth Island is a pioneering electricity grid at sea that\u2019s going to connect offshore wind farms to the Belgian mainland and also serve as a hub for future interconnectors with the UK and Denmark. Belgian [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}