Germany, Norway to share renewable energy across subsea cable

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19. HVDC is capable of moving electricity thoiusands of miles

HVAC, not so much.

Since AC has transmission loss of 7%, DC 3%......

Lets say you want to move 100 gigs 1000 miles..... do it with DC and you save on construction costs, and you save 4% on losses, or 4 gigs, the equivalent of 4 nuclear fission plants, 4 new plants might cost 10 to 15 billion each. Meanwhile the Atlantic Wind connection is slated to cost 5.5 billion. 350 miles long, 10-20 miles offshore from NJ to Virginia. Able to support 1700 4mw turbines. AWC would capable of moving 7 gigs.

Mw per mile per dollar totally works. TO be able to cut losses by 43%..... priceless.