Scotland has been asked to help develop a super-grid that would connect offshore renewable energy projects in the North Sea to grids in various EU countries.
EU's North Sea Grid Co-ordinator Georg Adamowitsch was in Scotland to invite the government to take part in the working group.
He said: "You have excellent renewable targets and we need your experts in our working group."
Scottish minister Alex Salmond, who sees the country as a 'Saudi Arabia for renewable energy' welcomed the invitation.
He said: "Scotland has the capacity and capability to become the
green energy capital of Europe. We have a clear, competitive advantage across the range of renewable technologies - with up to 25 per cent of Europe's offshore wind, wave and tidal energy potential.
"That has already been recognised across Europe as contributing to future energy security, with a North Sea super-grid a designated infrastructure priority."
The super-grid was first formally recommended by the EU last year as part of a raft of measures to boost energy security.
We have 21 onshore wind farms and are working on the world's largest wind farm – the London Array.
We are also working on a 500 megawatt wind farm in the North Sea off the coast of Germany, 40 kilometres north west of the Island of Juist.
