While the cost of building a network of high-voltage electricity lines spanning the North Sea “could be very high”, doing so would cut by 25% the price tag of linking up offshore wind, wave and tidal farms to the onshore grid, according to Parliament’s Energy and Climate Change Committee.
The supergrid would reduce the strain being imposed on the UK’s ageing onshore grid, and allow the country to flip from being a net importer of energy to a net exporter – perhaps in as little as a decade.
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