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France regularly exports 10 GW+ to its neighbouring countries. Transnational HVDC lines is not a difficult problem.
by bjourne 5y ago
France regularly exports 10 GW+ to its neighbouring countries. Transnational HVDC lines is not a difficult problem.
- littlestymaar 5y agoThat one order of magnitude off though… There's no technical issue, the grid just isn't designed in such way and you'd need enormous investments to get there. It's nothing money can't buy, but it's a hell lot of money: extrapolating from existing submarine HVDC project in Europe[1], connecting great Britain to mainland Europe alone would cost a few dozen billions. Want to connect the whole Europe like this, you'd have to pay a few hundred billions. [1]: http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC97720/ld-na-27527-en-n.pdf http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JR...