Icelandic volcanoes could help to power UK via subsea Scottish cable

Scotsman: ICELAND has offered to become a "green battery" for the UK by building the world`s longest subsea power cable, which could bring geothermal energy ashore in Scotland. Icelandic state electricity producer, Landsvirkjun, said yesterday that it was considering constructing a 1,000km link by around 2020 to supply electricity generated by its vast volcanic energy resources direct to Britain. An earlier proposal to connect Iceland's electricity grid with the UK would have come ashore north of the...

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