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Pylons are ugly and nobody likes them! Filling up our countryside with thousands more of them to facilitate a massive electricity grid expansion is proving to be a very tricky challenge with lots of local opposition. But what if you could build your electricity grid out at sea and just bring cables to shore where they’re needed?
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Reference links
China’s MILLION VOLT Energy Superhighway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rThkjp-bp8M
UK Holistic Network Design
https://www.nationalgrideso.com/document/262676/download
https://www.nationalgrideso.com/document/262681/download
UK Offshore Transmission Network Review
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/offshore-transmission-network-review/offshore-transmission-network-review-summary-of-outputs
The Great UK Grid Upgrade
https://www.nationalgrid.com/the-great-grid-upgrade
UK Emission reduction
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-greenhouse-gas-emissions-fell-54-2023-government-data-shows-2024-03-28/
Hornsea Wind Farms
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/wind-farm-approved-will-power-33-million-uk-homes
Michael Barnard on the Future of HVDC transmission
https://medium.com/predict/future-of-electricity-transmission-is-hvdc-9800a545cd18
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