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The announcement of a new power line reveals a lot about the government’s energy policy, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
PLANNING NEEDED: The sun sets behind Burbo Bank wind far, and Another Place, an art installation by Anthony Gormley, at Crosby Beach in Merseyside in north-west England

ON MONDAY, the government announced that it will build a new power line to connect Britain to the Netherlands. 

The gigantic network of electricity cables, dubbed the LionLink, will link wind farms in the North Sea to both countries, allowing 1.8GW of electricity to be moved between them at any one time.

Putting wind farms in the North Sea is an attractive prospect: it is windy, the sea is shallow and, unlike onshore wind farms, there are no residents who may object to them. 

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