The government believes that building the projects in question in the Baltic Sea area would have unacceptable consequences for Sweden's defence.
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00:00Sweden has rejected 13 out of 14 planned offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea, citing security
00:10concerns.
00:12Only one new wind farm has been approved, the Poseidon project, which will have a maximum
00:16of 81 turbines.
00:19Poseidon, which is located on the west coast outside of Stenungsund, is now allowed to
00:24build a wind farm that will contribute to an electricity production of 5.5 terawatt hours
00:29per year within electricity price area 3, and I will tell you more about that park in a moment.
00:36The government has also decided to reject 13 wind farms in the Baltic Sea, with the
00:41Sweden's defence minister said that the wind farms would make it harder to detect and shoot
00:54down missiles to defend the latest NATO member in case of a conflict.