New Energy Connects Morocco To The UK

The world’s longest subsea cable will send clean energy from Morocco to the UK

Michelle Lewis, April 21, 2022 (Electrek)

A 10.5 gigawatt (GW) solar and wind farm will be built in Morocco…[to] supply the UK with clean energy via subsea cables. The twin 1.8 GW high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cables will be the world’s longest…[Subsea cable manufacturer XLCC] will supply four 2,361-mile-long (3,800 km) subsea cables, with the first phase between 2025-2027 connecting wind and solar power generated in Morocco to Alverdiscott, North Devon…[This will] nearly double the world’s current production of HVDC cable manufacturing…

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…[It] will need 90,000 metric tons of steel…[The Xlinks Morocco-UK Power Project] will cover an area of around 579 square miles (1,500 square kilometers) in Morocco…[The HVDC subsea cables will] follow the shallow water route from Morocco to the UK, past Spain, Portugal, and France…[The 7 GW solar, 3.5 GW wind, 20GWh/5GW battery storage project] will cost $21.9 billion. Xlinks will construct 7 GW of solar and 3.5 GW of wind, along with onsite 20GWh/5GW battery storage, in Morocco… An agreement has been reached with the National Grid for two 1.8GW connections at Alverdiscott in Devon…

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…[By 2030, the project will be capable of powering 7 million UK homes and] supplying 8% of Britain’s electricity needs…Morocco benefits from ideal solar and wind resources…Remote generation and interconnection between distant geographic regions with inversely correlated weather systems will be more effective at addressing imbalances of supply and demand over longer time periods…The project is expected to create [about 8,000 temporary and 2,000 permanent] jobs in Morocco…” click here for more

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