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It’s not really said in the story, but this is a bidirectional connector. There are certainly times when the UK generates excess energy from wind.
Is that rare? I naively thought that all electrical infrastructure could flow in whichever direction there was need.
As an aside, the UK is still part of this but thanks to Brexit they got the opportunity to finance this interconnector by themselves and not avail themselves to the vast funds from the European Energy Programme for Recovery. For example Malta did and while the Malta Interconnector is not a world record in length but it certainly is in the relative amount: currently it's already above a quarter of the energy needs of Malta and in 2015 the relevant EU report said it's expected this to grow to 35% eventually.
Are there any safety concerns around 1.4GW flowing through a cable surrounded by salt water? I’m entirely uneducated in the ways of zap juice, but that sounds like a recipe for spontaneous electrocution if that cable breaks anywhere.
I posted 1.5 months ago about how a potentially catastrophic grid event three years ago instead showed how successful the EU cooperation is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38251463 As an aside, the UK is still part of this but thanks to Brexit they got the opportunity to finance this interconnector by themselves and not avail themselves to the vast funds from the European Energy Programme for Recovery. For exam…
the UK was a net contributor to the EU
everything it "received" from the EU was paid for by itself
Are there any safety concerns around 1.4GW flowing through a cable surrounded by salt water? I’m entirely uneducated in the ways of zap juice, but that sounds like a recipe for spontaneous electrocution if that cable breaks anywhere.
Time to phase out that last coal generator! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_coal-fired_powe... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratcliffe-on-Soar_Power_Statio... Edit: interconnector already ramped to 800MW importing to the UK. Let’s gooooooooo!