{"id":7293,"date":"2022-07-19T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/de\/?p=7293"},"modified":"2022-07-19T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T18:30:08","slug":"desert-electricity-for-the-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/08-2022\/desert-electricity-for-the-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Electricity for the Island"},"content":{"rendered":"
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he idea of bring\u00ading cli\u00admate-friend\u00adly elec\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty from Africa to Europe has been around for a long time. Each day, more solar ener\u00adgy than the world needs hits the Sahara sands. But in prac\u00adtice, lit\u00adtle has been done with it so far. The XLinks project is chang\u00ading this: Start\u00ading in 2030, renew\u00adable elec\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty will flow from Moroc\u00adco to Great Britain. The island\u2019s pow\u00ader grid is to be decar\u00adbonized by 2035, but domes\u00adtic solar and wind pow\u00ader are not enough to achieve this. By con\u00adtrast, in Moroc\u00adco, the Sahara sun shines more than enough all year round, and the steady trade winds can also be relied upon. In addi\u00adtion, this North African coun\u00adtry has become one of the lead\u00ading nations in renew\u00adable ener\u00adgy in recent years. Mas\u00adsive solar ther\u00admal pow\u00ader plants, wind farms, and solar parks have already been built, and there is still plen\u00adty of room for more in the sparse\u00adly pop\u00adu\u00adlat\u00aded desert regions<\/p>\n\n

3,800 kilo\u00adme\u00adters<\/big><\/strong>
\nis the length of the route
\nof the sub\u00adma\u00adrine cable<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Clean desert electricity<\/h2>\n

For the XLinks project, solar and wind pow\u00ader plants with a total capac\u00adi\u00adty of 10.5 gigawatts will be built on an area of 1,500 square kilo\u00adme\u00adters in the Guelmim-Oued Noun region. Com\u00adbined with a bat\u00adtery stor\u00adage facil\u00adi\u00adty with a stor\u00adage capac\u00adi\u00adty of 20 gigawatt hours, once com\u00adplet\u00aded it will ensure that ener\u00adgy can flow reli\u00adably to far-away Great Britain for an aver\u00adage of more than 20 hours per day, where it can be pro\u00advid\u00aded as base load. The elec\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty would then cov\u00ader eight per\u00adcent of the country\u2019s total demand. Four sub\u00adma\u00adrine cables will have to be laid over a dis\u00adtance of 3,800 kilo\u00adme\u00adters past the Euro\u00adpean main\u00adland to bring the desert pow\u00ader to the island using high-volt\u00adage direct cur\u00adrent tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy.<\/p>\n\n

10.5 gigawatts<\/big><\/strong>
\nof elec\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty is gen\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded by the
\nwind and solar parks in Moroc\u00adco<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A new com\u00adpa\u00adny has been found\u00aded specif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly for this mam\u00admoth project in Hunter\u00adston, Scot\u00adland: XLCC. It man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adtures the HVDC sub\u00adma\u00adrine cables with alu\u00adminum con\u00adduc\u00adtors and cross-linked poly\u00adeth\u00adyl\u00adene (XLPE) insu\u00adla\u00adtion and will also lay them on the sea floor.<\/p>\n

20 kilometers of cable<\/h2>\n

In the future, the plant will man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adture cable lengths of 20 kilo\u00adme\u00adters in one piece. Using joints, these will then be con\u00adnect\u00aded on the ship lay\u00ading them to form 100-kilo\u00adme\u00adter sec\u00adtions. The demands on the qual\u00adi\u00adty of the cables are enor\u00admous, since once they are sunk to the bot\u00adtom of the sea it is next to impos\u00adsi\u00adble to make any lat\u00ader repairs. There\u00adfore, before they are loaded, it is nec\u00ades\u00adsary to check them for defects in the insu\u00adla\u00adtion and con\u00adnect\u00ading joints. How\u00adev\u00ader, there are only a few com\u00adpa\u00adnies that can build test\u00ading equip\u00adment for such cable lengths. So XLCC turned to HIGHVOLT in Dres\u00adden, the world\u2019s lead\u00ading sup\u00adpli\u00ader of high-volt\u00adage and high-test sys\u00adtems.<\/p>\n\n

7 Mil\u00adlion <\/big><\/strong>
\nBritish house\u00adholds will be sup\u00adplied
\nwith elec\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty in this man\u00adner<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anne Cholawa, project man\u00adag\u00ader at HIGHVOLT and the per\u00adson respon\u00adsi\u00adble for this largest order in the company\u2019s his\u00adto\u00adry to date, makes it clear: \u201cTest\u00ading cables of this length is any\u00adthing but triv\u00adial. The longer a cable or cable sys\u00adtem is, the high\u00ader the pow\u00ader of the test sys\u00adtem must be.\u201d For test\u00ading DC and AC cables, pow\u00ader fre\u00adquen\u00adcy with\u00adstand volt\u00adage tests based on the res\u00ado\u00adnance prin\u00adci\u00adple togeth\u00ader with par\u00adtial dis\u00adcharge mea\u00adsure\u00adment is now the stan\u00addard. Since there is a world\u00adwide trend to put longer and longer cables under water and con\u00adven\u00adtion\u00adal test sys\u00adtems quick\u00adly reach their lim\u00adits, HIGHVOLT devel\u00adoped spe\u00adcial extra-large reac\u00adtors some years ago.<\/p>\n

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XXL-sized reactor<\/h3>\n

<\/p>\n

The XXL-sized reac\u00adtor was devel\u00adoped spe\u00adcial\u00adly
\nfor test\u00ading super-long cables.<\/p>\n

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They are the cen\u00adter\u00adpiece of the test sys\u00adtem for super-long cables and in the res\u00ado\u00adnance test\u00ading method pro\u00advide four times the pow\u00ader at just twice the vol\u00adume of pre\u00advi\u00adous reac\u00adtors. \u201cThis means that the test sys\u00adtem isn\u2019t so huge despite the enor\u00admous pow\u00ader,\u201d says Cholawa. The test sys\u00adtem is mod\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly extend\u00adable and could even test cable lengths of up to 200 kilo\u00adme\u00adters.<\/p>\n

This means that XLCC remains flex\u00adi\u00adble for the future, since it also wants to sup\u00adply sub\u00adma\u00adrine cables for oth\u00ader megapro\u00adjects beyond the XLinks project. Com\u00adpa\u00adny CEO Alan Math\u00aders is sat\u00adis\u00adfied: \u201cOur goal is to pro\u00advide the con\u00adnec\u00adtiv\u00adi\u00adty need\u00aded for renew\u00adable ener\u00adgy to secure future glob\u00adal ener\u00adgy needs. Work\u00ading with HIGHVOLT and our oth\u00ader expert part\u00adners will make it pos\u00adsi\u00adble for us to secure future glob\u00adal ener\u00adgy needs.\u201d\u2002<\/p>\n

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Your contacts<\/h2>\n

Do you have ques\u00adtions about the project?<\/strong>
\nDr. Mario Jochim are there for you:
\n<\/i> \u2009M.Jochim@highvolt.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Do you have ques\u00adtions about the project?<\/strong>
\nAnna Cholawa are there for you:
\n<\/i> A.Cholawa@highvolt.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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