The UK government is taking into consideration strategies to import wind power from Ireland to the National Grid via cables under the Irish Sea to north and west Wales. The cables would re-emerge at two sites in Wales with one of them at Pentir near Caernarfon, and the other one at Pembroke.
read more... 16/10/2012
In a move towards meeting the EU’s goal of reaching a 20% share of energy from renewable sources by 2020, last year, nine European countries agreed to build a power grid of high-voltage cables under the North Sea. It would be the first multinational grid designed to address the fluctuating nature of green power generation.
read more... 21/08/2012
UK’s National Grid awarded a grid connection of 3,000MW to Element Power which will export the renewable energy to the UK via two independent subsea cables.
read more... 31/07/2012