The TYNDP 2024 will assess how 176 transmission and 33 storage projects respond to the TYNDP scenarios. Learn more about the projects by clicking on their location on the map below or filter projects by country, type of infrastructure or status. More information about the projects will become available with the release of TYNDP 2024 for public consultation at the end of 2024.
EU is planning power lines from the wind fields on the Atlantic down to the south – and from the sunny deserts up to the north.
Looks like France, Spain and Poland are energy self sufficient or something.
I wonder if the cost of this construction was included in the energy return on energy for renewables. Nope.
The dots represent storage. Those places must be massive. Approximately 33 of them to store all the energy?
Everything from North Africa is “under consideration”. I wonder what percentage of the total power in the plan is expected from North Africa and what area those solar panels will take. Will the nomadic goat herders sell their ground to the EU? I wonder how much of the infrastructure will be stripped by the poor. Like homes in the US with all the copper pipes missing.
When you drill into the details, it is pretty ambitious. The transmission line from North Africa to Germany is under consideration, but planned commissioning is 2032. Actually, most of the plan is expected to be commissioned by 2032.
Finally, will the electrical grid be built before the Muslims take over.
That chart looks somewhat dubious. So-called solar energy, with its huge demand for fossil-fueled mining & refining of exotic minerals and for fossil-fueled manufacturing & transportation, has a “potential contribution to net emissions reduction” about 8-10 times larger than nuclear energy? Seems very unlikely.
Where China arguably comes out ahead is that it is, in smart capitalist practice, hedging its bets – investing in both the world’s largest nuclear power plant construction program and cornering the solar panel construction business, which allows China to cover the costs of its own solar experiment by selling those panels to those dumb Westerners. If only Our Betters were not such credentialed fools!
From the Article: “The key hold-up for a lot of projects is the slow planning approvals," Ms Bashir, who also attended the conference, said. "In China they decide they’re going to do something and then they go and do it.”
“then they go and do it”. Within living memory, that is what foreigners used to say about the United States.
The indirect costs of excessive bureaucracy will probably never be calculated … but the reality of those costs is plain to see. Who could have predicted that a nominally “capitalist democratic republic” would end up with a much worse infestation of bureaucracy than a nominally “communist dictatorship”?
