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by dalyons 124 days ago
Aren’t a lot of extra north south links in progress already? So won’t it be better soon?
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https://www.nationalgrid.com/the-great-grid-upgrade

Approx 10GW down the east coast alone in various stages right now, jumping the current bottleneck (B6) between Scotland and England...

Also see:

  * https://wind-curtailment-app-ahq7fucdyq-lz.a.run.app/
  * https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com/#5/55/-3.2
https://www.nationalgrid.com/the-great-grid-upgrade

Approx 10GW down in the east coast alone in various stages right now...

IIRC it's still years out, though less than a decade.