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Enhancing the Resilience of Offshore Wind Farms with HVDC

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National Grid ESO published their interim report for the disturbance which occurred on August 9th 2019. The event caused the disconnection of approx. 5% of end consumers and resulted in long interruption in railway services. National Grid’s incident analysis identified that the initial event was a lightning strike into the overhead line between Eaton Socon … Read more

How Europe is Falling Behind

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Eddie O’Connor, Founder 1100kV 12GW UHVDC World First in China There was a time we Europeans used to lead.  The invention of HVDC in the early ‘50s, the Gedser machine in Denmark in the ‘80s, the Feed in Tariffs in the ’90s which allowed wind energy to begin the deployment cycle leading to the 10 … Read more