Energy Voice | ‘Xlinks supply could improve UK grid resiliency from 2030s’

The Xlinks Morocco-UK Power Project “could help balance the UK grid and improve resiliency when it launches in the early 2030s”.

A story published by Energy Voice this week delves into how grid resiliency would benefit from “scale and diversity of inputs and outputs”

Those were the words of our Project CEO James Humfrey, who said: “One of the advantages of subsea transmission cables is you’ve actually got some flexibility where you come on shore. And one of the advantages in discussion with National Grid of coming in at Alverdiscott is that you don’t need grid upgrades there.”

He added: “The Southwest is a part of the country with high power demand, and therefore bringing supply into that corner of Great Britain is actually very advantageous from a grid perspective – it could save £5 billion in dispatchability costs.”

Read the full story by clicking here.