Sweden has cancelled 13 planned offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea on security grounds. The government in Stockholm, a new NATO member, announced on Monday that it would no longer issue any licences for the construction and operation of the farms, which were to extend off the Swedish east coast down to the Öresund strait near Denmark. Swedish armed forces said the offshore wind turbines would interfere with sensors and radar, among other things, and thus impair the country’s defence capabilities. For example, enemy cruise missiles or submarines could be detected later or less easily, Defenc…