From grids to human rights

Physical and metaphysical infrastructure

Since Europe’s grids are developing slower than necessary, electricity rationing may become increasingly necessary.

The Netherlands is leading the way. The Dutch grid lacks hundreds of medium-sized substations, thousands of small substations, and over twenty-thousand technicians to work on the grid. Selling the German part of Tennet to private investors will cover part of the costs (now that’s an interesting story to follow).

Eefje van Gorp, spokesperson for Tennet, said that other countries should beware. “Belgium is in trouble. The UK is in trouble. In Germany there’s lots of trouble because in Germany all the wind is in the north and the demand is in the south.” https://www.ft.com/content/9c7560ec-a220-4150-a35e-a79db70c0c07