For that coming age to dawn brightly, of course, an industrial campaign of unprecedented proportions must be mounted, with hundreds of gigawatts (GW) of renewable-energy developments built and, crucially, a vast infrastructure of cables and collecting stations installed to bring the power to market.
Such a ‘supergrid’, as it has been dubbed, would transport electricity from newly constructed offshore wind farms, wave- and tidal-power plants, and solar-energy developments in southern Europe and (potentially) North Africa, “flowing freely over the borders” into upgraded existing network systems.
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