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EU plans power supergrid to boost renewables
http://www.rtcc.org/2014/11/05/eu-plans-power-supergrid-to-boost-renewables/[font face=Serif][font size=5]EU plans power supergrid to boost renewables[/font]
Last updated on 5 November 2014, 1:06 pm
[font size=4]A €63 million research programme will help to balance variable renewable generation with demand through better connections[/font]
By Paul Brown
[font size=3]An electricity supergrid is being planned to connect all 28 European Union countries and provide them with insurance against power blackouts.
Forty leading organisations from research, industry, utilities and grid operators are combining in a €63 million research programme aimed at incorporating all renewable energies into a supergrid that can balance intermittent sources of electricity and ensure uninterrupted supplies.
It is part of a wider European Union policy to make the 28 states less reliant on imports of power. States along the border with Russia are particularly concerned about over-reliance on gas pipelines from Siberia, which have been turned off periodically in the recent past because of disputes over prices.
Policies in disarray
The new supergrid research will not bear fruit until 2018, but the EU is already spending billions on new interconnectors between states. These are to prevent states being threatened with being cut off from Russian gas − and also to help outposts such as the UK, whose energy policies are in disarray.
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Last updated on 5 November 2014, 1:06 pm
[font size=4]A €63 million research programme will help to balance variable renewable generation with demand through better connections[/font]
By Paul Brown
[font size=3]An electricity supergrid is being planned to connect all 28 European Union countries and provide them with insurance against power blackouts.
Forty leading organisations from research, industry, utilities and grid operators are combining in a €63 million research programme aimed at incorporating all renewable energies into a supergrid that can balance intermittent sources of electricity and ensure uninterrupted supplies.
It is part of a wider European Union policy to make the 28 states less reliant on imports of power. States along the border with Russia are particularly concerned about over-reliance on gas pipelines from Siberia, which have been turned off periodically in the recent past because of disputes over prices.
Policies in disarray
The new supergrid research will not bear fruit until 2018, but the EU is already spending billions on new interconnectors between states. These are to prevent states being threatened with being cut off from Russian gas − and also to help outposts such as the UK, whose energy policies are in disarray.
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