These power lines will link Germany with Hydro electric power in Norway.
Essentially technology like that will provide the base load for the huge offshore wind farms that Germany will build in the coming decades in the North Sea.
Alpha Ventus http://www.alpha-ventus.de/ is the first one of those. These are really far away from the coast and sitting in the North Sea exposed to the most severe weather conditions.
It is just that a country needs to have a plan and a will to do it.
You can imagine that the nuclear lobby does not like this project to get hydro-electric power from Norway at all. They are doing everything to delay it. Corrupt politicians like those from the FDP (Brüderle) are their puppets.
Actually there are more alternatives and base load is not the same all the time. If you have a large grid distributing wind generated electricity from a large area, that provides part of the base load for most of the days of the year.
Germany is building two large underwater power lines in the latest HVDC technology to Norway.
One is described here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NorGer
NorGer is one, NORD.LINK the other.
These power lines will link Germany with Hydro electric power in Norway.
Essentially technology like that will provide the base load for the huge offshore wind farms that Germany will build in the coming decades in the North Sea.
Alpha Ventus http://www.alpha-ventus.de/ is the first one of those. These are really far away from the coast and sitting in the North Sea exposed to the most severe weather conditions.
It is just that a country needs to have a plan and a will to do it.
You can imagine that the nuclear lobby does not like this project to get hydro-electric power from Norway at all. They are doing everything to delay it. Corrupt politicians like those from the FDP (Brüderle) are their puppets.
Actually there are more alternatives and base load is not the same all the time. If you have a large grid distributing wind generated electricity from a large area, that provides part of the base load for most of the days of the year.