While closer to home new life appears to have been breathed back into the project below. So I'm hoping the matter can be resolved amicably allowing it to go ahead. Aquind: Government loses bid to block cross-Channel electricity cable The UK government's decision to refuse permission for a £1.2bn electricity link between England and France has been overturned in the High Court.
Adokforme wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:49 pm
While closer to home new life appears to have been breathed back into the project below. So I'm hoping the matter can be resolved amicably allowing it to go ahead. Aquind: Government loses bid to block cross-Channel electricity cable The UK government's decision to refuse permission for a £1.2bn electricity link between England and France has been overturned in the High Court.
I mean, the AQUIND project is mired in the stench of dodgy financing, but I really don't understand the local objections to it - it's not as if it's a coal fired power station being built in the city belching pollution on a permanent basis- it's an underground cable.
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"It is expected that if Squadron Energy gains control of Sun Cable, it will scrap the undersea cable plan."
That doesn't sound like good news?!
Adokforme wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:24 pm
I wasn't previously aware of administrators being required for the Sun Cable project so not sure if the piece below is good news. Guess we'll have to wait another three months before we find out!
Administrators move swiftly to settle future of Sun Cable
Two of Australia’s richest people are expected to be rivals in the bidding process for Sun Cable, the developer of what could be the world’s biggest intercontinental solar and energy storage project. Administrators indicate that the sale process could be completed within three months.
dan_b wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2023 9:23 am
I mean, the AQUIND project is mired in the stench of dodgy financing, but I really don't understand the local objections to it - it's not as if it's a coal fired power station being built in the city belching pollution on a permanent basis- it's an underground cable.
Do they still burn witches down there?
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dan_b wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2023 9:24 am
"It is expected that if Squadron Energy gains control of Sun Cable, it will scrap the undersea cable plan."
That doesn't sound like good news?!
Adokforme wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:24 pm
I wasn't previously aware of administrators being required for the Sun Cable project so not sure if the piece below is good news. Guess we'll have to wait another three months before we find out!
Administrators move swiftly to settle future of Sun Cable
Two of Australia’s richest people are expected to be rivals in the bidding process for Sun Cable, the developer of what could be the world’s biggest intercontinental solar and energy storage project. Administrators indicate that the sale process could be completed within three months.
dan_b wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 4:38 pm
If we think the Morocco Sun Power HDVC link project is bonkers (and it kind of is) then this Australia-Singapore SunPower link is even more insane
Both schemes seem bonkers to me, especially the Morocco CfD figure of £48/MWh (~£60 index linked).
But I say bonkers, not in the sense that I know it can't be done, but that I hope it can, and I'm miles out. If it's possible (despite my doubts), then it's phenomenal, and might mean the Aussie idea will work (HVDC, not H2)?
I find the Morocco scheme incredibly exciting, but I'm waiting for the bad news, reality hit.
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Although the UK Courts overturned the rejection of planning permission by Kwasi "lose a quick buck" Kwartang, meaning that from the UK side, it lookedlike the project can go ahead - another spanner has now been thrown into its works across the Channel.
The original funding scheme for AQUIND was that it would have received significant cash from the EU's "Projects of Common Interest" fund.
The French Government has recently successfully lobbied for it to be removed from the PCI list on the basis that the UK is no longer in the EU and shouldn't receive EU subsidy. AQUIND attempted to get the decision overturned at the CJEU, but their appeal has just failed.
It's interesting because you'd think France ultimately would benefit from another HVDC link into its grid - but then they also rejected planning permission for the GridLink project last year too, so maybe they're shifting strategically to the other EU nations on its borders?
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Maybe the french should withdraw from the UK energy market then.
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