Being able to import electricity depends on what has been decided in the Brexit agreement.
Importing electricity is one option, although for a country the size of the UK it does depend a lot on importing electricity:
Importing electricity is one option, although for a country the size of the UK it does depend a lot on importing electricity:
Ireland also has enormous offshore wind potential off the Atlantic coast, which could be built out and the energy exported to mainland Europe.
However, let's hope that the UK can agree to a deal to fully develop the potential of the Dogger Bank project[3, 4] (collaboration between the British, Dutch, Germans and Danes to build the largest offshore wind project in the world).
Another project I'd love to see is Iceland's geothermal energy piped through Ireland or the UK to mainland Europe[5], supplying crucial baseload energy to the UK, perhaps even to mainland Europe.
[1] https://www.eirgridgroup.com/the-grid/projects/celtic-interc...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_super_grid
[3] http://www.scottishenergynews.com/dutch-and-danish-grid-oper...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Wind_Power_Hub
[5] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iceland-energy-britain-id...
[6] https://www.landsvirkjun.com/researchdevelopment/submarineca...
Most of the electricity we import is due to French nuclear power overproduction, the marginal cost of producing more power is negligible so it's more economical for them to produce as much as they can sell at almost any price.
The boxes starting with "IC" are inter-connections to other countries.
On the whole it seems like it doesn’t have that far to go