jane sutton from the royal academy of engineering. just on your point about balancing demand. a few years ago, there was a lot of chat about a european super grid to share renewable electricity, and we ve even had a presentation from somebody who was looking at a global super grid. do you think that s possible? would it be helpful to balance demand in different parts of the world? i actually want to let danielle take that one. a global super grid sounds like your sort of scale with your quarter of a kilometre wind turbines. yes, thank you. what do you think? i m so glad this question was asked because that s one of the. there s actually two components to the rollout of a significant scale of renewable energy that we haven t talked about. one is the ability to balance those demand changes over time and balance the geography and the weather patterns over space by connecting more of our regions together. so the super grid idea, evenjust regionally
from somebody who was looking at a global super grid. do you think that s possible? would it be helpful to balance demand in different parts of the world? i actually want to let danielle take that one. a global super grid sounds like your sort of scale with your quarter of a kilometre wind turbines. yes, thank you. what do you think? i m so glad this question was asked because that s one of the. there s actually two components to the rollout of a significant scale of renewable energy that we haven t talked about. one is the ability to balance those demand changes over time and balance the geography and the weather patterns over space by connecting more of our regions together. so the super grid idea, evenjust regionally connecting within a continent, gives us so much more flexibility and resilience and reliability of our grid and reduces the total amount of capacity that we need to have installed, because we re
to my right there. jane sutton from the royal academy of engineering. just on your point about balancing demand. a few years ago, there was a lot of chat about a european super grid to share renewable electricity, and we ve even had a presentation from somebody who was looking at a global super grid. do you think that s possible? would it be helpful to balance demand in different parts of the world? i actually want to let danielle take that one. a global super grid sounds like your sort of scale with your quarter of a kilometre wind turbines. yes, thank you. what do you think? i m so glad this question was asked because that s one of the there s actually two components to the rollout of a significant scale of renewable energy that we haven t talked about. one is the ability to balance those demand changes over time and balance the geography and the weather patterns over space by connecting more of our regions together. so the super grid idea,
academy of engineering. just on your point about balancing demand. a few years ago, there was a lot of chat about a european super grid to share renewable electricity, and we ve even had a presentation from somebody who was looking at a global super grid. do you think that s possible? would it be helpful to balance demand in different parts of the world? i actually want to let danielle take that one. a global super grid sounds like your sort of scale with your quarter of a kilometre wind turbines. yes, thank you. what do you think? i m so glad this question was asked because that s one of the. there s actually two components to the rollout of a significant scale of renewable energy that we haven t talked about. one is the ability to balance those demand changes over time and balance the geography and the weather patterns over space by connecting more of our regions together. so the super grid idea, evenjust regionally connecting within a continent, gives us so much more flexibility and
and the weather patterns over space by connecting more of our regions together. so the super grid idea, evenjust regionally connecting within a continent, gives us so much more flexibility and resilience and reliability of our grid and reduces the total amount of capacity that we need to have installed, because we re seeing variation that we can tap into if the sun is not shining here, the wind is blowing there. if it s very hot and sunny here, you ve got hydropower or wind power, in another region. connecting us will be a very big part of that. the second part that s quite related is demand response. so how can those who are transmitting and distributing this electricity get signals back from industry or homes that they can, without the user noticing, reduce the load, either change the turn off the defrost cycle of the freezer for 15 minutes, not even noticeable. 0r reduce the temperature of a cooling.