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by scythe 248 days ago
It's not just the cost of building. There's huge NIMBY opposition to the construction of transmission lines:

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-government-electricity-py...

Of course, the same arguments killed the construction of onshore wind in England, which would have prevented needing the new powerlines (or at least not so much).