Of more relevant and topical, interest are the veiled threats on Friday to cut the UK out of the €2.5 billion EU energy market; unless the UK does as it is told.
Apparently the EU does not want to buy our renewable energy or sell us theirs. Perhaps the remaining HVDC links will not be built between France and the UK?
This is how politics impacts renewable energy.
If you were standing on the outside, looking in, considering energy links with the EU to balance supplies and go totally renewable; what would you be thinking?
I am thinking that at the height of the Cold War, there were pipelines transmitting natural gas from The Soviet Union & The Warsw Pact into Western Europe**
And things are getting so bad that
allies will not transmit power between each other ?
(
Allies - NATO, OSCE etc etc etc etc)
Quelle un load of merde.
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** The Living Daylights - 1987
James Bond is assigned to aid the defection of a KGB officer, General Georgi Koskov, covering his escape from a concert hall in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia during intermission. During the mission, Bond notices that the KGB sniper assigned to prevent Koskov's escape is the attractive blonde female cellist from the orchestra, and deduces that she is not a professional assassin. Disobeying his orders to kill the sniper, he instead shoots the rifle from her hands, then uses the
Trans-Siberian Pipeline to smuggle Koskov across the border into Austria and then on to Britain.
Trans-Siberian Pipeline - HistoryThe pipeline project was proposed in 1978 as an export pipeline from Yamburg gas field, but was later changed to the pipeline from Urengoy field, which was already in use. In July 1981, a consortium of German banks, led by Deutsche Bank, and the AKA Ausfuhrkredit GmbH agreed to provide 3.4 billion Deutsche Mark in credits for the compressor stations. Later finance agreements were negotiated with a group of French banks and the Japan Export-Import Bank (JEXIM). In 1981-1982, contracts were signed with compressors and pipes suppliers Creusot-Loire, John Brown Engineering, Nuovo Pignone, AEG-Telefunken, Mannesmann, Dresser Industries, and Japan Steel Works. Pipe-layers were bought from Caterpillar Inc. and Komatsu.[1]
The pipeline was constructed in 1982-1984. It complemented the transcontinental gas transportation system Western Siberia-Western Europe which existed since 1973. The official inauguration ceremony took place in France.[2]
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