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Scotland-Norway interconnector application submitted to National Grid The first steps towards an electricity link between the UK and Norway were taken today as a consortium including Vattenfall and Scottish and Southern Energy made an application to National Grid for a connection offer. If built, the 1.4 gigawatt link would enable Scotland to export is growing wind resource and give Norway another market for its vast hydro power capacity. The arrangement would effectively see Norway acting as a battery for Scotland's intermittant generation and improve the security of supply for both regions. A spokesman for the NorthConnect consortium said National Grid now had 90 days to come up with an offer for a connection at Peterhead in north east Scotland. The consortium then had 90 days to consider the terms of the offer. He said at that point, if the offer is accepted, the firms will look at the Norwegian end. The spokesperson said no applications had been made yet for the Norway grid connection but that is not surprising, given that the other partners in the project own much of Norway's power infrastructure and are largely state or municipality-owned. The other NorthConnect consortium partners are: E-Co Energi, a Norwegian hydropower company owned by the city of Oslo; Agder Energi, Norway's second largest power company majority owned by the largest, state-owned Statkraft; and Lyse, another municipality-owned Norwegian power company. The consortium aims to have the connection in operation before 2020. Source: Utility Week Comments
By Henk Daalder Please be aware that is more costly to use hydropower as a battery, than burning less fossile fuel. And the Norwegians have not yet pumped up water to store any energy. It is far more efficient and cheaper to controll the fossile power plants and have them adapt to the available windpower © Faversham House Group Ltd 2011. News articles may be copied or forwarded
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