James Birkin writes as below: there is now a wiki at (http://claverton.wikispaces.com/+HVDC+-+List+of+interested+persons+and+organisations at which you can add target organistations) Dear Attendee, I am compiling a list of all organisations or individuals supporting the concept of a Supergrid. »
A significant number of Claverton Energy Group members acknowledge Britain could have energy security and a fully sustainable clean supply of affordable electricity within 30 years (15 years with a crash program) by embracing the European Supergrid (akin to the UK national grid but on a larger scale, linking up Europe, Scandinavia, Iceland, Central Europe, the Ukraine, and north Africa). However, ... »
Polly Higgins 28.07.08 ELECTRICITY & TRANSMISSION IN EUROPE AND BEYOND Russia is running out of gas, oil is peaking globally, and energy prices are escalating. The most recent climate change science from NASA tells us that we must stabilise our carbon dioxide emissions at 350 parts per million, a figure we have already overshot with emissions currently standing at 385 parts per million. Th... »
Gregory Barker, the Shadow minister for climate change writing in the Sunday Times, 1st Feb, “Brown has a Power Failure” points out that unless a decision is made soon to go ahead with the London Array in the Thames Estuary, then National Grid will miss the slot allocated to upgrade the Grid in time. Apparently National Grid will soon be devoting all their efforts to sorting out the ... »
From Dr Gregor Czisch. There are two subjects in Nigel Wakefield’s email I would like to address: First Subject- Technical feasibility of complex multi-terminal HVDC systems: Nigel Wakefield wrote > One of the problems that needs addressing with HVDC is, I believe > the problem of multi-nodal links. … However I understand that > technology linking individual point supply into an HVDC link ... »
The above slide from Czisch (“An affordable renewable power system for Europe”) shows that Europe is unlikely to be vulnerable to sudden disconnection / sabotage of say a single or several, North African regions since there is considerable redundancy in connection and diversity of supply areas, and European grids of necessity already have existing sophisticated systems for coping with ... »
A meeting of French government representatives and energy and financial experts occurred on Oct 30th in London at which a plan for the construction of an HVDC link to bring power from renewables sites in North Africa to Europe was discussed. It was not clear exactly what the French plans and motives were, although it is speculated that they wanted to achieve something decisive before the EU Presid... »
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