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> Norway can buy wind energy from the UK Even Southern England cannot get enough wind energy from Scotland to fully utilise wind farms because transmission cap
by citrin_ru 11mo ago
> Norway can buy wind energy from the UK
Even Southern England cannot get enough wind energy from Scotland to fully utilise wind farms because transmission capacity is insufficient. I would imagine a transmission line to Norway will be even more expensive than to England.
- ZeroGravitas 11mo agoBut they are building such a link, because it'll make/save more money than it costs. Imagine how many doom and gloom headlines we'd have avoided if these two massive construction projects could have been sync'd up perfectly or if we had a national press that could do anything other than try to scare people with big numbers.
- arcade79 11mo agoThe interconnects already exists.
- brohee 11mo agoSolving the Scotland/England interconnect under-capacity is well underway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-voltage_transmission_links_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-voltage_transmiss...