Ireland already has two interconnectors with Wales in the UK. The UK has interconnectors with Norway and France as well. Everyone is scrambling to secure energy supplies as the net zero-inspired green wall approaches, and no one has any storage to speak of.
I thought they were going to build a bridge across the Irish Sea or chunnel under it. I could just picture Tristan cruising Isolde all the way to Cornwall as she and Brangäne grumped in the back seat.
Forgot the link to the world’s largest hydro project.
[Made up of five cascade hydropower stations with the capacity to produce 300 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, equal to the amount of electricity consumed by Britain last year, the dam will be located in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo. A section of the river tumbles 2,000 metres (6,561 feet) in a span of 50km (31 miles), offering huge hydropower potential.]
One dam five more run of the river cascades the dam itself is 70,000 megawatts worth unparalleled anywhere. This is your energy storage all that water behind the dam is potential energy ready to be tasked when the Sun sets or the wind on the steppes and Tibetan plateau lull.
https://globalwindatlas.info/en/
For the class. Look at all the purple around and in Ireland , Scotland, Denmark,and Norway. Purple is 45% or more capacity factors. Then slide over to.China pay particular attention to just North of Nepal look at all that purple. China is going big with 10 and now 20 megawatt wind turbines. Wind scales at the cube root of velocity AND the square root of diameter. A 5 MW turbine pays back it’s entire energy budget to mine,cast, refine and deploy it in 6-8 months this is scientifically known as energy returned on initial energy invested. EROI or EROEI again AI will happily give mountains of actual scientific data for that fact. A 10 MW turbine is even better because of the scaling factors of diameter vs materials needed to increase diameters.
https://www.rivieramm.com/lead-stories-brand/first-chinese-10-mw-turbine-enters-into-operation-60228
China don’t do climate change they do energy harvesting machines that pay back massive captured energy once you built them. China is run by actual scientists and engineers who can do math and could care less about politics as long as it’s the party in charge. This fact means sh1t gets built and on a massive scale with 5 year plans made by engineers and scientists. Anyone who has never been to China and seen their modern monster cities cannot accurately comprehend how much they leaped. They don’t care about 600 million peasants they do care about the 500+ million middle class urbanites with that number growing every year as they allow more peasants to come to expanding cities and move up in class. I would suggest anyone doubting any of this before emotionally posting rubbish take a trip to Shanghai then get back to the class it will humble you quickly. Ride a bullet train to the capital Beijing be sure to get a Chinese version of uber in a BYD EV or plug in hybrid pay attention to the L2 charging ports at every condo, apartment and retail outlet parking deck. 400 volt triple phase at that not archaic 120/240V power in China is all 240V single phase and 400V triple phase Y wired so any single leg is 240V hot to ground and 400V hot to hot. Exactly how a modern grid should be wired not 1890s 120V and its bastardized 240v split phase monstrosity.