Friday, February 7, 2025

Singapore of Asia shows how to use cables for network-sharing of electricity.

 The Economist January 25, 2025, pp. 47 ff summarizes how through the use of oceanic cables it is able to share electricity--tapping others' power grids: giving from  it in periods of overflow; taking from its neighbors when in under capacity.

As the magazine cites, there are several such interlocking cable-linked  networks: the EU with England included power share with 6 EU countries; in Africa between Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia; Bangladesh through India to tap Nepal's grid; and sharing among Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, and Laos. 

Other cable linkages are postulated by the magazine's editors: India and Pakistan; Japan and South Korea; the grids in US with Mexico. Investors are encouraged, despite fears of some country to reduce a resource it has reason to hold onto.


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