Electrifying everything with renewable technologies like solar PV, wind turbines and battery energy storage is a 'holy grail' that energy transition naysayers tell us is an impossible dream. In 2021, an ambitious UK startup called Xlinks set out to prove that theory wrong, embarking upon a multibillion dollar project to install 7.5GW of solar capacity, 3.5GW of wind capacity and 22.5GWh of battery energy storage in Morocco that will be enough to run 7 million British homes for more than 20 hours a day, all year round, via four 4,000km subsea HVDC cables. In 2024 they received the seal of approval and a multimillion pound cash injection from Britain's largest electricity provider. We talk directly to the Chief Executives of both companies.

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