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> The cost of the proposed 10,500-megawatt Xlinks project is expected to be $22 billion, half for the solar and wind energy farms and half for the cables.

I thought the UK had too much wind energy as is, why would they be importing more?



It is all about correlation between sources. The wind power where it connects to is more weakly correlated to UK's existing wind compared to for example Danish.


The wind blows consistently at night and infrequently during the day in that region.

Solar during the day and wind at night for, relatively to solar, steady energy generation


Maybe the cable enables export of excess at night time?




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