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Well, it will also cost an estimated £16 billion, to build two high capacity electricity transmission lines from Morocco to the UK. You can build a lot of capac
by orra 3y ago
Well, it will also cost an estimated £16 billion, to build two high capacity electricity transmission lines from Morocco to the UK. You can build a lot of capacity locally for that price.
- marksbrown 3y agoOr a tiny portion of a railway! Do you have a citation for that 16 billion?
- orra 3y agoIt's the Xlinks project. This is where I got the 16bn figure: <https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/sectors/energy/uk-morocco-subsea-cable-power-electricity/ https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/sectors/energy/uk-morocco-s...>. This source says £20 billion, but half is for the cable, and the other half the solar farm and other expenses: <https://sifted.eu/articles/xlinks-morocco-uk-electricity-cable https://sifted.eu/articles/xlinks-morocco-uk-electricity-cab...>. Reporting is a bit inconsistent. My point is, transmitting electricity extremely long distances has its own downsides (construction costs & power losses), even if we assume Morocco gets a fair deal out of this. And this project is "only" 7% of UK electricity supply. What of the rest? What of other countries? Saying "export" and "import" doesn't solve all the problems of intermittency (unfortunately).