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12th December 2015, 06:00 PM
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Power Grid Europe
Can you provide me the details of the European Super Grid? Also tell me about proposed scheme of European Super Grid?
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13th December 2015, 10:38 AM
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Re: Power Grid Europe
The European super grid is a future super grid that interconnect the various European countries and the regions around Europe's borders – including North Africa, Kazakhstan, and Turkey – with a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power grid It predicts that a European super grid would: • minimize the cost of power in all participating countries by allowing the entire region to share the most efficient power plants; • pool load variability and power station irregularity, reducing the margin of inefficient spinning reserve and standby that have to be supplied; • Allow for wider use of renewable energy, particularly wind energy. • Allow wide sharing of the total European hydro power resource, which is about 6 weeks of full load European output. Proposed Schemes A number of other specific schemes are proposed to create super grids of varying extent within Europe. These include: • Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan involving Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden and Norway • Europagrid, proposed by Europagrid Limited to link various European countries including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Norway. • North Sea Offshore Grid, an active proposal by the European Commission, first proposed in November 2008 as a building block towards a Europe-wide super grid[5] involving Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland and Luxembourg. • Low Grid, proposed by Greenpeace to link the countries of Central Europe, particularly Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. • High Grid, proposed by Greenpeace to link Europe and North Africa, emphasizing the installation of solar power in the South of Europe. • ISLES, an active proposal, at feasibility stage as of September 2011, to link Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland with off-shore renewable energy generation. • The All Islands Approach, based on cooperation between the countries of the British Isles. • DESERTEC, a concept based upon the idea of building concentrating solar power (CSP) stations in North Africa and the Middle East and exporting the power to Europe by HVDC lines. • Medgrid, a project planned in North Africa, which aims to promote and develop a Euro-Mediterranean electricity network that would provide North Africa & Europe with inexpensive renewable electricity, mostly solar. The goal is to install 20GW of generating capacity, with 5GW being devoted to exports for Europe |
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