Comments on: Western HVDC link completion delayed until next year https://www.newpower.info/2017/07/western-hvdc-link-completion-delayed-until-next-year/ Expert information for all those invested in the UK's energy future Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:08:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 By: Wings Over Scotland | Another disaster for Scotland https://www.newpower.info/2017/07/western-hvdc-link-completion-delayed-until-next-year/#comment-40339 Wings Over Scotland | Another disaster for Scotland Mon, 29 Oct 2018 12:10:38 +0000 http://www.newpower.info/?p=3513#comment-40339 […] The background to the story (which you’ll find, in the traditional manner, buried many paragraphs down the article beneath the shock-horror headline and the SNP BAD quotes from opposition politicians) is that the payments are a result of the National Grid – which, of course, is NOT controlled by the Scottish Government or the SNP – having inadequate infrastructure to store/transfer the energy, because a project due to handle the problem is several years late. […]

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