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North Sea Link
The North Sea Link is a 1,400MW high-voltage direct current submarine power cable between Norway and the United Kingdom. At it was the longest subsea interconnector in the world when it became operational on 1 October 2021. Route The cable runs from Kvilldal, Suldal, in Norway, to Cambois near Blyth in England. The converter station is located near to the cable landfall in East Sleekburn and is connected to the National Grid at the Blyth substation. Technical description The cable is long, and has a capacity of 1,400MW. The estimated cost of the project was €2billion, and it became operational in 2021, as planned. Project participants It is a joint project of the transmission system operators Statnett and National Grid. The offshore cable was supplied by Prysmian and manufactured at the Arco Felice factory in Naples, Italy. It was installed by the cable-laying vessel ''Giulio Verne''. Cable for the fjord, tunnel and lake sections, and the onshore connection in N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulla-Førre
Ulla-Førre is a hydropower complex in Southern Norway. It is situated along the borders of the municipalities of Suldal and Hjelmeland (in Rogaland county) and Bykle (in Agder county), Norway. It has an installed capacity of approximately , and the annual average production is (1987–2006), while its reservoir capacity is about ; at full production, it can last seven to eight months. The complex includes the artificial lake Blåsjø, which is made by dams around above the sea level. The hydroelectric power stations in the complex are Saurdal, Kvilldal, Hylen and Stølsdal, operated by Statkraft. Blåsjø Blåsjø is the tenth largest lake in Norway by area. It is located in the municipality of Bykle in Agder county and the municipalities of Hjelmeland and Suldal in Rogaland county. The lake is about west of the village of Bykle. It has a surface area of . Its surface swings between above sea level depending on seasonal weather and power consumption, and it has a shorel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easington (district)
Easington was, from 1974 to 2009, a local government district in eastern County Durham, England. It contained the settlements of Easington, Seaham, Peterlee, Murton, Horden, Blackhall, Wingate and Castle Eden. It did not however include Easington Lane which is administered as part of the City of Sunderland. The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of Seaham urban district with most of Easington Rural District. It had the lowest percentage of foreign-born residents in England at 1.2% (2001 census). The district was abolished as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England. An electoral ward in the name of Easington still exists. The population of this ward taken at the 2011 census was 7,693. Electoral divisions *''Blackhalls'' Blackhalls ward; Nesbitt parish; Sheraton with Hulam parish; Hutton Henry and Station Town parish wards of Hutton Henry parish; Hesleden parish ward of Monk Hesleden parish *''Dawdon'' Dawdon ward; Seaham Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nord Pool
Nord Pool AS is a pan-European Electric power, power List of commodities exchanges, exchange. Nord Pool has its main office in Oslo and further offices in Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn and London. The company is owned by the European exchange operator Euronext as well as TSO Holding, which represents the continental Nordic countries, Nordic and Baltic countries, Baltic countries' transmission system operators (TSOs: Fingrid, Energinet, Statnett, Svenska Kraftnät, and Litgrid). Nord Pool has two subsidiaries, Nord Pool AB and Nord Pool Finland Oy. History 1932–1991: Norwegian origins Nord Pool traces its origin to ' (lit. the ''Coordination Association''), a Electricity market, power exchange formed by Eastern Norway, eastern Norwegian electricity companies in 1932 on the initiative of Augustin Paus, and which soon came to encompass all the electricity companies in eastern Norway. In 1971, the exchange merged with the regional exchanges in other parts of Norway and became ' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City A
A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agreed definition of the lower boundary for their size. In a narrower sense, a city can be defined as a permanent and densely populated place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organizations, and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving the efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suldalsvatnet
Suldalsvatnet () is the sixth-deepest lake in Norway. The deep lake lies in the municipality of Suldal in Rogaland county, Norway. The lake is the headwaters of the river Suldalslågen and it sits at an elevation of above sea level. The lake has a volume of . The long lake is regulated for use in two nearby hydroelectric power plant Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is Electricity generation, electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies 15% of the world's electricity, almost 4,210 TWh in 2023, which is more than all other Renewable energ ...s. References Lakes of Rogaland Suldal {{Rogaland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Trench
The Norwegian trench or Norwegian channel (; ; ) is an elongated depression in the sea floor off the southern coast of Norway. It reaches from the Stad peninsula in Sogn og Fjordane in the northwest to the Oslofjord in the southeast. The trench is between wide and up to deep. Off the Rogaland coast it is deep, and its deepest point is off Arendal where it reaches deep – an abyss compared to the average depth of the North Sea, which is about . Geology It was formed during the last 1.1 million years by the effects of erosion associated with repeated ice stream activity. The trench is not a subduction-related oceanic trench, where one tectonic plate is being forced under another. The Norwegian Trench was created by fluvial erosion processes during the later Tertiary age. Pleistocene glaciers and ice sheets further deepened the trench. During the main glaciations, the Skagerrak Trough was the meeting point for ice from southeastern Norway, southern Sweden and parts o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the primary Executive (government), executive arm of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with a number of European Commissioner, members of the Commission (directorial system, informally known as "commissioners") corresponding to two thirds of the number of Member state of the European Union, member states, unless the European Council, acting unanimously, decides to alter this number. The current number of commissioners is 27, including the president. It includes an administrative body of about 32,000 European civil servants. The commission is divided into departments known as Directorate-General, Directorates-General (DGs) that can be likened to departments or Ministry (government department), ministries each headed by a director-general who is responsible to a commissioner. Currently, there is one member per European Union member state, member state, but members are bound by their oath of office to represent the genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synchronous Grid Of Continental Europe
The Continental Europe Synchronous Area (CESA), formerly known as the UCTE grid, is one of the largest synchronous electrical grids in the world, primarily operating in Europe. It is interconnected as a single phase-locked mains frequency electricity grid that supplies over customers in , including most of the European Union. In 2009, of production capacity was connected to the grid, providing approximately of operating reserve margin. The transmission system operators operating this grid formed the Union for the Coordination of Transmission of Electricity (UCTE), now part of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E). Area The synchronous grid of continental Europe covers territory of the ENTSO-E continental Europe regional group and some neighbouring countries not involved in the ENTSO-E. As of 2025, the synchronous grid includes all or parts of the following countries: * * * * * * * * (West) * * * * * * * * * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viking Link
Viking Link is a 1,400 megawatt, MW high-voltage direct current, HVDC submarine power cable between the United Kingdom and Denmark, which was completed in 2023. , it is the longest land and subsea HVDC interconnector in the world. The project is a cooperation between British National Grid plc and Danish Energinet. Route The cable runs between Bicker, Lincolnshire, Bicker Fen in Lincolnshire, UK, and Revsing in southern Jutland, Denmark. The cable has a total length of , of which is undersea, passing through Danish, German, Dutch and British waters. It crosses the long NorNed submarine power cable. Specification The interconnector is capable of transmitting up to 1,400 MW at 525 kilovolt, kV, resulting in an annual transmission capacity of 12.3 TWh. The actual cable is made of copper, steel, paper and plastic and weighs about 40 kg per metre. It is similar in capacity and length to the UK–Norway North Sea Link. Project history In November 2015 Viking Lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nemo Link
Nemo Link is a 1,000 MW HVDC submarine power cable between Richborough Energy Park in Kent, the United Kingdom and Zeebrugge, Belgium. The project is a joint venture between British National Grid and Belgian Elia. The 400 kV electrical interconnector is the first between the two countries, with an annual transmission capacity of 8.76TWh. The link has been fully operational since 31 January 2019, and has transported 29 TWh during its first 5 years; 24.75 TWh to the UK and 4.25 to Belgium with an availability above 99%. History In 2015, contracts totalling €500million were awarded to Siemens for the construction of the two onshore HVDC converter stations and to J-Power Systems Corporation for the cable system. The contract for the laying of the actual cable was awarded to DeepOcean who completed the work in 2017 and 2018. Route The total cable length is of which is under water, buried at a depth of up to . The offshore section runs from Pegwell Bay on the UK side to Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Sea Offshore Grid
The North Seas Energy Cooperation (NSEC), officially the Political Declaration on energy cooperation between the North Seas Countries, is a collaboration between EU member-states and Norway to create an integrated offshore energy grid which links wind farms and other renewable energy sources across the northern seas of Europe. First proposed as the North Seas Countries Offshore Grid Initiative (NSCOGI), it is one of several European super grid schemes. Electricity would be transmitted via high-voltage direct current cables, allowing it to be sold and exchanged in all involved countries. It would also make it easier to optimise energy production, and make the system overall less susceptible to the climate; Norway's hydroelectric power plants could act as a "giant battery", storing the power produced and releasing it at peak times, or when wind strength is low. Several high-voltage direct current interconnectors such as the North Sea Link between Norway and Britain (operational sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oil And Gas Platform
An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formations beneath the seabed. Many oil platforms will also have facilities to accommodate the workers, although it is also common to have a separate accommodation platform linked by bridge to the production platform. Most commonly, oil platforms engage in activities on the continental shelf, though they can also be used in lakes, inshore waters, and inland seas. Depending on the circumstances, the platform may be fixed to the ocean floor, consist of an artificial island, or float. In some arrangements the main facility may have storage facilities for the processed oil. Remote subsea wells may also be connected to a platform by flow lines and by umbilical connections. These sub-sea facilities may include one or more subsea wells or manifold centres for multiple wells. Offshore drilling pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
