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World’s Longest Undersea Cable to Send Clean Energy From Morocco to the UK - Powering 7 Million Homes
The Xlinks Morocco-UK Power Project will run clean energy from Morocco to England and costs 16 billion pounds.
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A tiny English village is to become the center of a ”revolution” in the global energy industry and be connected to Morocco—with the world’s longest undersea cable.
The scheme will see Alverdiscott in Devon, population 286, at the end of a line attaching it to North Africa.
The Xlinks Morocco-UK Power Project says it will import enough sun and wind-generated energy to the UK to supply seven million homes by 2030.
The plan would see 3,800km (2,361 miles) of subsea cabling connect Morocco’s renewable energy-rich Guelmim Oued Noun region with little Alverdiscott, near Barnstaple.
An agreement has already been reached with the National Grid for voltage source convertor stations to be set up in the English village, which has a population of 286.
The man behind the huge project is former Tesco groocery store chain boss Sir David Lewis.
The new electricity generation facility, entirely powered by solar and wind energy combined with a battery storage facility, would cover about 1,500 square kilometers (579 square miles) in Morocco and then be connected to Britain via four HVDC (high voltage direct current) sub-sea cables.
These would plug into Alverdiscott which would host two 1.8GW connections
Convertor stations in Morocco will change the high voltage alternating current (HVAC) power at the generation site to HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current).