You could also have a power grid and distribute the excess electricity to the next state where it’s cloudy. Or do other things with it. Or build the AI datacenters there, that Google etc are currently planning to power with small nuclear reactors… I believe desalination is a very wasteful option compared to other things.
Entire Europe is connected. Sure we’re still missing quite some cables to get the regeneratives to where they’re needed. And I suppose this doesn’t cover the UK. But it’s no problem to move around quite some energy across parts of a continent.
You could also have a power grid and distribute the excess electricity to the next state where it’s cloudy. Or do other things with it. Or build the AI datacenters there, that Google etc are currently planning to power with small nuclear reactors… I believe desalination is a very wasteful option compared to other things.
Transporting large quantities of electricity isn’t easy, you have to have large enough interconnects to handle the energy you’re moving around.
Entire Europe is connected. Sure we’re still missing quite some cables to get the regeneratives to where they’re needed. And I suppose this doesn’t cover the UK. But it’s no problem to move around quite some energy across parts of a continent.