Electricity is fungible, it would make no sense to transfer the electrons being generated in Morocco to the UK via the mainland. Instead you'd have Spain use t

Electricity is fungible, it would make no sense to transfer the electrons being generated in Morocco to the UK via the mainland. Instead you'd have Spain use them, then Spain might transfer excess power from its north to France, which in turn would transfer more power to the UK. That it isn't being done like that is interesting in itself. I wonder what the mix of technical and political reasons is. To a sibling comment saying "Brexit", that's clearly not the case, as a graph in this article shows: https://www.powerengineeringint.com/industry-insights/britain-hits-power-imports-record/ https://www.powerengineeringint.com/industry-insights/britai...