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IEEE Spectrum
@ieeespectrum@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

The UK has a power transmission problem. Wind farms in Scotland are producing huge amounts of energy, but getting it flowing to London in the south is costly.

New grid-enhancing technologies allow more #power to be transferred across the grid, without building new power lines.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/grid-congestion-uk?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline

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