The Xlinks-backed project, funded by the TAQA Group, UAE, and Octopus Group, UK, shall develop the world’s longest subsea cables infrastructure to import about 3.6 GW of electricity from Morocco’s wind and solar energy farms to the UK.

Apr 26, 2023

Xlinks First Limited, UK, has secured the funding to develop a subsea cables infrastructure to import green power for the UK from Morocco. The infrastructure is supposed to be the world’s longest HVDC subsea line and is expected to be completed by 2030.

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Funding of GBP 30 million has been secured, with GBP 25 million from Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA), UAE, and GBP 5 million from Octopus Energy Group, UK.

The project will source renewable energy from a 10.5 GW facility of solar and wind farms, aided by 5 GW of battery storage, in Morocco, and transport the power through four 3,800-kilometer (2,361-mile) subsea cables to serve about 8 percent of the UK’s power demand.