The cable transporting power from the site will hug the Moroccan coastline, then pass alongside Portugal, northern Spain and France before looping around the Isles of Scilly to terminate at Alverdiscott in north Devon, where Xlinks has already agreed to 1.8 gigawatt connections. The site, in the Guelmim-Oued Noun region, will also have 20 gigawatt hours of battery storage. The plan is to build almost 12m solar panels and 530 windfarms over the 960 sq km area of desert. When the Morocco-UK link is complete, Xlinks expects to generate 20 hours of reliable renewable energy a day using the Sahara’s sunshine and breezy night-time conditions. Xlinks was founded in 2019 by its chief executive, Simon Morrish, who has grown the environmental services business Ground Control across the UK. “Time is important for the UK to meet its net zero ambitions, to secure energy supplies and to reduce bills. And everybody has changed, so it’s sort of like you’re starting again. “Then we came back to them to start the detail and the political world exploded and, as a result, everything stopped.
Lewis told the Guardian: “We spent a long time with the then business secretary who said: ‘We like it a lot but it needs to go through Treasury.’ There was a review with Treasury, Cabinet Office and the business department, which was very positive. The proposed route of the Morocco to UK undersea cable.
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