An ambitious £16bn ($22bn) plan to pipe green electricity from Morocco to Britain via one of the world’s longest undersea power cables is being billed as a route to easing the UK’s current energy crisis by a heavyweight group of business executives backing the project.
Xlinks aims to build 10.5GW of wind and solar allied to 5GW/20GWh of battery storage in the North African nation and send electricity to the UK via a 3,800km high-voltage direct current (HVDC) link to southern England, made up of four lines with a total 3.6GW
