Wiring. Dad, wot's Alverdiscott got to do wiv Morocco?

The article mentions 20GWhr of battery with 5GW max delivery - I presume not one 3v cell at full load delivering 1.6GA, but even at 1MV of battery and 5KA or some similar VA product juggling its looking at some chunky cables and a large field of portakabin size batteries. They are looking at 200km2 of tracking solar panel, so 15km by 15km if it was a square.

But a 3,6GW link as 2 * 1.8 is a lower power  rating than that French one that has just gone bang, so it can be done, and at hundreds of KV, then a 5% voltage drop gets you a surprisingly long way.

The north sea link is about 30% of the proposed length of this new one, runs at a ‘mere’  

+/-500kV so 1MV DC between poles and  has been working well on test so far.

Possible - probably, but not easy, certainly, an interesting one, definitely.

Mike

PS edit, not sure if you are aware of this earlier work in Morocco, they see it as a source of income, and store a few hours of run-on after dark in the form of the specific heat and the latent heat of melting of a blend of various metallic nitrates.

The article mentions 20GWhr of battery with 5GW max delivery - I presume not one 3v cell at full load delivering 1.6GA, but even at 1MV of battery and 5KA or some similar VA product juggling its looking at some chunky cables and a large field of portakabin size batteries. They are looking at 200km2 of tracking solar panel, so 15km by 15km if it was a square.

But a 3,6GW link as 2 * 1.8 is a lower power  rating than that French one that has just gone bang, so it can be done, and at hundreds of KV, then a 5% voltage drop gets you a surprisingly long way.

The north sea link is about 30% of the proposed length of this new one, runs at a ‘mere’  

+/-500kV so 1MV DC between poles and  has been working well on test so far.

Possible - probably, but not easy, certainly, an interesting one, definitely.

Mike

PS edit, not sure if you are aware of this earlier work in Morocco, they see it as a source of income, and store a few hours of run-on after dark in the form of the specific heat and the latent heat of melting of a blend of various metallic nitrates.