Sentences with phrase «larger supergrids»

Building even larger supergrids to take advantage of even wider geographical regions, or even the whole planet, could make the need for balancing capacity largely redundant, that's right.

Not exact matches

A large part of the first stages of the Supergrid is expected to be offshore wind.

We define the supergrid as «a pan-European transmission network facilitating the integration of large - scale renewable energy and the balancing and transportation of electricity, with the aim of improving the European market».

Clearly then, with very large wind programmes you do get diminishing returns and need more backup, but it seems that can be offset to some extent by wider interconnectivity — the supergrid idea, linking up renewables sources across the EU.