Quote Originally Posted by Jampie View Post
Don't know about the UK. Where I live in Australia, the grid I'm on is connected with every east coast state and SA, stretching thousands of kilometers. A recent study done identified a mere 22,000 or so possible large scale pumped hydro storage sites. Perhaps the solution for the UK is connections to Europe and storage there if you can't find a single suitable site on your hilariously tiny island.
Ah Australia, well lots of space there, lots of sunshine. All of the UK is interconnected with the National Grid and has been for as long as I remember.

We have lots of interconnections with our neighbours, current and planned:

https://publications.parliament.uk/p.../121/12109.htm

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and we can see exactly where our main power is coming from or at times being exported to:

https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

So at the moment I'm typing this we are exporting 3GW across the 4GW interconnector with France. Fortunately there is nothing connected to Russia or Ukraine.

When are you going to let WA join your interconnects? I don't know why they don't declare UDI.