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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, th
by 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 agoThe 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 agoOh, 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.