Subsea Cable to Connect Iceland with UK Electricity Grid
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In lieu of this, an energy project between Iceland and the UK is in the works. The UK wants to offset its energy supply with some of the energy Iceland is producing. To do so, they are going to build a £4.3bn subsea electricity cable that links Iceland to the UK’s electricity grid. This cable would be 1,000km long— the longest in the world.
Just how much energy would be transported from Iceland to the UK? They are looking at delivering five terawatt-hours a year to Britain. That’s enough to power 500,000 homes for a whole year.
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/27/iceland-seeks-uk-funding-cable-project
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