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Sounds good. If they actually manage to build it, it might even become possible for Africa to start selling solar energy to Europe.
The distance is still a killer for that, it would either require to build an AC line from Morocco to Spain, a highly politically charged region or a high voltage dc line from Tunisia to Italy, which is quite the distance to cover.
Indeed, there are huge issues with that idea, but at least now there’s a plan to take a step in that direction. Who knows if we ever get there though.
The main issue with this plan, in my opinion, is that there (atleast seem) to be no redundant links. African countries barely manage to share borders, not to talk about rivers and resources, for the sake of safety this system should have atleast 2 links to different neighbours.
That’s certainly an issue, but I guess you have to start somewhere. If political chaos and turmoil doesn’t ignite all the cables and towers, they absolutely need to expand it later.