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Also I don't get why German does have very limited transfer capacity between Norway,Denmark and Sweden. Those countries have lot cheap renewable energy.

• hef19898 7y ago
  I believe I remember from my masters that there are plans (underway? to be? already in place?) to actually connect the countries. Would be great if that worked out.
  • sgift 7y ago
    You probably think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORD.LINK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORD.LINK ? Building is in progress.
    • hef19898 7y ago
      Yep, that one!
    • nielsole 7y ago
      IIRC one issue of NorGer(a similar cable) was that German energy law prefers domestic plants over imported electricity. This of course is a huge risk to investors of submarine cables and was an obstacle in getting it built.
  • semi-extrinsic 7y ago
    While there are some pretty huge electrical links in place already, there is a large political and public resistance towards expanding this. For the public, they know that the endgame is more expensive electricity. No good. For local industry, it basically amounts to taking the increasingly large competitive advantage they have of cheap, low emission electricity and just giving it away to Europe.
    • petre 7y ago
      The generation capacity will idle otherwise. It's probably better to sell the electricity for cheap than let the capacity idle to the point where it rusts and becomes useless.
      • semi-extrinsic 7y ago
        Oh, it won't idle, no worries. They're running as hard as they can. We use the 'leccy to produce the world's cleanest aluminium, nickel, silicon etc. These industries are what drove construction of the hydroelectric plants in the first place. People are talking maybe we'll build the next gigafactory for batteries here. There is no shortage of electrochemical industries hungry for that power, and that green image.