EU power sector options may be mutually contradictory
Localisation runs counter to EU plans for long-distance transmission lines, and strikes at the single energy-market goal
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- Electricity market shifts
- Thermal generation challenged
- Possible solutions
- Long-distance HV transmission lines/interconnectors
- Electricity storage/self-consumption
- Capacity markets
- Potential contradictions
- Traditional utilities outlook
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