4 ms·
I’m enthusiastic about the wind plants were building off the East Coast, but I also worry that they have single points of failure where the power cables come in
by matthewdgreen 2y ago
I’m enthusiastic about the wind plants were building off the East Coast, but I also worry that they have single points of failure where the power cables come in from the ocean. These could even be severed accidentally. I hope they’ve considered adding some redundancy to these links. There’s even a plan to build offshore power distribution networks up and down the whole East Coast which would potentially help (or hurt.)
- anovikov 2y agoThroughput of those cables isn't so huge. It takes an attack of enormous scale which will be impossible to hide or misattribute to cause significant power shortage over a wide area this way.
- matthewdgreen 2y agoWell, these wind projects can be close to 1GW and they come onshore at one place. So that seems like it could be very disruptive. What am I missing?