Channel Islands Electricity Grid
The Channel Islands Electricity Grid (CIEG) is the joint company set up in 1998 between Guernsey Electricity and Jersey Electricity to operate and manage the submarine cables between Europe and the Channel Islands.
The CIEG is continuing to develop the undersea cable network and has announced a new project due for commissioning in 2015. 'Normandie 3' will install a further cable between Jersey and France, with additional connections between the islands and France currently being devised. These subsea cables will give both Guernsey and Jersey greater security and better affordability, as they will give the islands the opportunity to increase the amount of imported energy.
Long term agreements with Électricité de France (EdF) ensure the imported electricity is low carbon. [1]
Co-operating through the CIEG, means the islands can work together towards improving the reliability of the grid system.
Cable connections
Non operative
Operational
- Normandie 2 - 2000 - 17 kilometres (11 mi) Surville, France to Jersey with a 90MW capacity.[3] Cable contains fibre optic cables.
- Normandie 3 - 2014 - 32 kilometres (20 mi) Armanville, France to Jersey with a 100MW capacity [4]
- GJ1 - 2000 - 37 kilometres (23 mi) Jersey to Guernsey with a 60MW capacity. [5] Cable contains 3 fibre optic cables of 24 fibres each.
Future
- Normandie 1 - expected in 2016 - Surville, France to Jersey with a 100MW capacity [6] [7]
- GJ2 - expected 2016 - 38 kilometres (24 mi) Jersey to Petit Bot, Guernsey [8]
- Possible - France to Guernsey [9]
- Unlikely - Guernsey to Sark [10]
External links
References
- ↑ "http://www.sustainableguernsey.info/blog/2013/05/channel-islands-electricity-grid-strengthened-with-new-agreement/". Sustainable Guernsey. 29 May 2013. External link in
|title=(help) - ↑ "The Channel Island Electricity Grid (CIEG)". Visit Jersey.
- ↑ "Normandie 2". 4C Offshore.
- ↑ "New Jersey electricity cable 'will be more secure'". BBC. 30 May 2014.
- ↑ "GJ1". 4C Offshore.
- ↑ "Jersey Electricity signs contract for third power cable". JE.
- ↑ "Undersea Cable laying starts on new link to France". GE.
- ↑ "GJ2". 4C Offshore.
- ↑ "Direct power cable to France needed – Guernsey Electricity". Guernsey Press. 4 Nov 2015.
- ↑ "Prove you can pay £6m. for power cable, T&R tells Sark". Guernsey Press. 27 Mar 2015.