BSC Insights: Interconnector flows in and out of Great Britain
Great Britain is connected to the rest of Europe through five interconnectors with a combined capacity of 5,000MW. So far this year 9.2% of Great Britain’s energy demand has been met by energy from the interconnectors. In this ELEXON Insight, one of our Market Advisors, Emma Tribe describes how much electricity flows on the interconnectors.
Interconnector capacity
There are five different countries that are currently connected to Great Britain’s electricity network through undersea interconnectors.
The graph below shows the current capacity of those interconnectors. The largest capacity interconnector being the one that links Great Britain with France and allows the transfer of up to 2,000MW.
The interconnector status filter on the right hand side of the graph can be used to show the interconnectors that are planned to go live in the next few years.
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