BEST PATHS demonstrations explained in a three-minute video

Five short videos, collected on the project videos page, went out on YouTube on 5 September 2017, one for every large-scale demonstration in the EU-funded BEST PATHS project. The demonstrations brought expert partners together to validate the technical feasibility, costs, impacts and benefits of new grid technologies that give the network more capacity and flexibility, with the aim of fitting more renewable energy into Europe’s energy mix.

The five industry-led demonstrations were set up to:

• deliver solutions for the move from single High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) lines to HVDC grids;
• upgrade and repower existing Alternating Current (AC) and Direct Current (DC) parts of the network;
• integrate superconducting high power DC links into a meshed AC network.

If you want the written version, each demonstration now has its own explainer, from HVDC links for offshore wind to the superconducting cable tested in the fifth.