Baroness Bloomfield speaks on Xlinks project during ‘critical’ House of Lords debate

Xlinks’ Morocco – UK Power Project has again been spoken about in Parliament, this time by Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist.

The Great British Energy Bill was debated in the House of Lords on November 18.

During the lengthy session, Baroness Bloomfield singled out the project as the only planned infrastructure that “comes close to offering baseload power as well as exclusive supply” to Britain.

She said the Bill relates to “one of the most critical issues this country must address: energy security”.

The Baroness pointed then out that, over the past month, in March 2024, and this time last year, the UK has experienced Dunkelflaute – a period when there is little to no energy generated from wind and solar power due to a lack of wind and sunlight.

“Relying on new interconnectors to Belgium and Holland will not offer energy security if either their wind farms suffer the same weather conditions as ours, or their countries’ needs are greater than ours,” said the Baroness.

“Indeed, it is possibly only Xlinks’ proposed HVDC cable bringing solar and wind-generated energy from Morocco to the UK that comes close to offering baseload power as well as exclusive supply.”