{"id":165651,"date":"2021-10-01T14:52:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=165651"},"modified":"2021-10-01T14:52:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:52:25","slug":"norwegian-reservoirs-power-homes-in-great-britain-via-724km-cable-who-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=165651","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian reservoirs power homes in Great Britain via 724km cable \u2014 who wins?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Norwegian hydro-electric site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The suspicion has to be that Britain\u2019s \u2018excess\u2019 wind power, if any, would sell for a low price as Norway doesn\u2019t need it, whereas a shortage of power in Britain would allow Norway to sell for a high price, assuming availability at request time. Water can be stored but wind can\u2019t. Some reports are calling this \u2018cheap hydro\u2019, but at \u00a31.4 billion just for the cable system such claims appear unconvincing.<\/em>
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Norwegian reservoirs will begin powering homes in Great Britain today as the world\u2019s longest subsea power cable was switched on, in a boost to renewables and tight energy supplies this winter, says New Scientist<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 724-kilometre North Sea Link is the sixth of a growing network of electricity interconnectors between Great Britain and its European neighbours, to trade energy and adapt to grids increasingly reliant on the variable output of wind, solar and hydro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First tested in June, the copper cable along the seabed of the North Sea will operate at half its potential for three months before reaching its 1400 megawatt capacity, enough to power 1.4 million homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Power is expected to initially mostly flow from Norway, which generates almost all its electricity from hydro, to Great Britain, where electricity prices are higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The link may eventually be used to export electricity from offshore wind farms for storage at pumped hydro facilities in Norway, pumping water uphill and releasing it to generate electricity when needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The start of commercial operations will help Great Britain\u2019s tight margins of electricity supply this winter, which are squeezed by a fire taking out half of the capacity of a separate link to France. \u201cIt couldn\u2019t have come at a better time,\u201d says Tom Edwards at energy analysts Cornwall Insight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, he says the new link isn\u2019t going to \u201csignificantly shift the dial\u201d on the steep electricity wholesale prices Great Britain is experiencing due to high gas prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interconnector, a joint venture with the UK\u2019s National Grid and Norway\u2019s Statnett, is a feat of engineering, made possible by a 2.3-kilometre tunnel through a mountain. But it is far from alone. A new one through the Channel Tunnel switches on early in 2022, followed by one to Denmark in 2023 and one to Germany in 2024, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full article\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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via Tallbloke\u2019s Talkshop<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/ift.tt\/2WtObt9<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 1, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The suspicion has to be that Britain\u2019s \u2018excess\u2019 wind power, if any, would sell for a low price as Norway doesn\u2019t need it, whereas a shortage of power in Britain would allow Norway to sell for a high price, assuming availability at request time. Water can be stored but wind can\u2019t. Some reports are calling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-H5N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":248482,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=248482","url_meta":{"origin":165651,"position":0},"title":"Norway rejects electricity cable project with Scotland","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"18\/03\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"With a capacity of 1,400 MW, NorthConnect would have enabled the two countries to exchange renewable energies - 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