Kind of like a, I don’t know, *union* of European countries?
P01135809-Trump on
Isn’t the real headline here that the UK will allow 9 other countries to build on areas of its territorial sea bed?
noobzealot01 on
whats the point of all of this if prices become more and more expensive
Dave_B001 on
Please announce they have bought land all around Trumps courses and are putting hundreds of wind turbines around them.
ProfPMJ-123 on
This is a good thing.
As a general rule, when it comes to electrical transmission systems, bigger is always better. Obviously they have to be well designed, so a cascading fault can’t happen where a fault in one area can bring the lot down (as happened in Spain fairly recently), but this should improve resiliency, and yes, it will drive down costs.
JRugman on
As offshore wind projects become bigger and are being built further out to sea, the cost and complexity of delivering power to shore becomes even more of a challenge.
One of the proposed solutions to this is the [North Sea Wind Power Hub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Wind_Power_Hub), an artificial island in the middle of the North Sea that has multiple HVDC links to shore. The island will be big enough to provide enough substation capacity for many GW of generation. This will allow nearby offshore wind farms to deliver power to the island via relatively short AC cables, instead of having to build their own dedicated HVDC cables and substations. It will also act as an interconnector node between several countries, facilitating the flow of power between national grids.
This project, and others like it, would require extensive international cooperation, which is what this agreement is hopefully paving the way for.
Cute_Ad_9730 on
None of this ‘investment’ is UK public funded so none of the profits will go to the UK. 90% of wind turbine investment around the UK is funded by foreign public or private entities. Why isn’t the UK investing in it’s own opportunities instead of financing other countries pensions and public services.
MandelbrotFace on
“LOOOOOOSERS!!” – *President of the United States of America*
Background_Ad_8569 on
Ah anything to raise the Tangerine shitgibbons blood pressure
ISB-Dev on
Would wind farms at sea not make the UK power grid more vulnerable to attack?
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Kind of like a, I don’t know, *union* of European countries?
Isn’t the real headline here that the UK will allow 9 other countries to build on areas of its territorial sea bed?
whats the point of all of this if prices become more and more expensive
Please announce they have bought land all around Trumps courses and are putting hundreds of wind turbines around them.
This is a good thing.
As a general rule, when it comes to electrical transmission systems, bigger is always better. Obviously they have to be well designed, so a cascading fault can’t happen where a fault in one area can bring the lot down (as happened in Spain fairly recently), but this should improve resiliency, and yes, it will drive down costs.
As offshore wind projects become bigger and are being built further out to sea, the cost and complexity of delivering power to shore becomes even more of a challenge.
One of the proposed solutions to this is the [North Sea Wind Power Hub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Wind_Power_Hub), an artificial island in the middle of the North Sea that has multiple HVDC links to shore. The island will be big enough to provide enough substation capacity for many GW of generation. This will allow nearby offshore wind farms to deliver power to the island via relatively short AC cables, instead of having to build their own dedicated HVDC cables and substations. It will also act as an interconnector node between several countries, facilitating the flow of power between national grids.
This project, and others like it, would require extensive international cooperation, which is what this agreement is hopefully paving the way for.
None of this ‘investment’ is UK public funded so none of the profits will go to the UK. 90% of wind turbine investment around the UK is funded by foreign public or private entities. Why isn’t the UK investing in it’s own opportunities instead of financing other countries pensions and public services.
“LOOOOOOSERS!!” – *President of the United States of America*
Ah anything to raise the Tangerine shitgibbons blood pressure
Would wind farms at sea not make the UK power grid more vulnerable to attack?