first published week of: 09/19/2016
UK energy regulator Ofgem has approved plans for a 1.1 billion pound under-sea power cable between Britain and France, developer Aquind Limited said on Wednesday.
The approval means the privately-funded 2 gigawatt (GW) cable could start importing power from 2022 from northern France's nuclear-powered electricity grid to southern England, where it could power up to four million homes.
Britain plans to build more power links with Europe to avert an electricity shortfall by the early 2020s as coal plants close and indigenous North Sea oil and gas production declines. continued…