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Re:U.K. offshore wind park may generate power cheaper than b... by OJFord on Friday September 20, 2019 @12:35PM (#21028556)
> - Inter-connectors

What's that? Supply from a grid overseas?

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Re:U.K. offshore wind park may generate power cheaper than b... by isostatic on Friday September 20, 2019 @01:05PM (#21028922)
Yes. Sometimes GB exports power to mainland europe and/or ireland, sometimes it's the other way round.

On average GB imports more from europe than exports. It exports more to Ireland than imports.

Doesn't really help with the troughs in wind - when it's calm in the north sea for the UK, it is calm for Denmark too.

Maybe if europe puts a lot of production in Biscay and the Med it will smooth things out - but there's only so much capacity on the interconnects (2GW from France, 1GW from Netherlands, 1GW from Belgium, 500MW to Northern Ireland, 500MW to ROI)

That said, planned interconnects bring it up to 10GW from mainland, 1.5GW to Ireland

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