Just Have a Think | Ocean Electricity Grid. How do they do that? @JustHaveaThink | Uploaded April 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Pylons are ugly and nobody likes them! Filling up our countryside with thousands more of them to facilitate a massive electricity grid expansion is proving to be a very tricky challenge with lots of local opposition. But what if you could build your electricity grid out at sea and just bring cables to shore where they’re needed?

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