HVDC Interconnectors

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News!

Ofgen has just approved 5 planned new HVDC Interconnectors for development. 2 were not previously on my list.
None will be up and running before 2030 at the earliest, and compared to what I was aware of actually "only" represents an additional 1.4GW of overall planned HVDC connections, but shows the continued direction of travel.

Tarchon Link - 1.4GW connector from Essex to Germany.
Mares Connect - 750MW connector from Wales to Republic of Ireland
LirIC - 700MW connection from Scotland to Northern Ireland

and these two "Offshore Hybrid Asset" links - both will join to an offshore windfarm before supplying countries at both ends as well

LionLink - 1.8GW between Suffolk and the Netherlands
Nautilus Link - 1.4GW between the Isle of Grain and Belgium

This brings the UK to 19GW or so of interconnectors by 2032 or thereabouts.

For additional context, the first "OHA" - Kriegers Flack - was built a few years ago with an offshore wind farm in the Baltic sea which connects to both Denmark and Germany https://powerplants.vattenfall.com/kriegers-flak/
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Update!
Neuconnect (the one to Germany) - they've completed "phase 1" of the cable laying - 56km of on-shore and near-shore sub-sea cabling have been laid in the UK. Construction will now pause over the winter. Still on target for commissioning in 2028
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i welcome your updates -keep them coming.
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Yep, they always put on a smile on my face too.
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Update - Greenlink (the new 0.5GW connection from Wales to Ireland) - has begun power transmission testing and if all goes well should enter full service in January 2025.
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dan_b wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2024 11:11 am Update - Greenlink (the new 0.5GW connection from Wales to Ireland) - has begun power transmission testing and if all goes well should enter full service in January 2025.
Grrrrr, that's local energy, for local people. How very dare they! :fight:
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Gives us chance to build some more turbines, some tidal and some pumped storage and make Wales an energy exporter Mart.

Would be nice to have Trydan Cymraeg as a national business.

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Absolutely Moxi, Wales has a lot of potential, and also sheep that need shade ..... one day per year. :norfolk:
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:lol:

Rest of the time those panels make great umbrellas for the dafadd

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