The issue is that Spain has three interconnected neighbours (France, Portugal and Morocco) and all of them are overflowing with electricity.

The best candidate for lowering prices would be France, but France would most likely re-export that electricity to other countries, and paying to build up the internal grid to carry electricity that is neither bought by nor sold to French actors isn't very attractive.

Ideally Spain would interconnect with Italy, but that's more expensive.

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crote 10 hours ago | parent [-]

There has already been a serious proposal for a HVDC cable from Morocco to the UK. If that's possible, why not go for Spain-Germany?

	▲	toast0 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Hvdc in the ocean requires way less right of way than hvdc over land. Running oceanic hvdc from Spain to Germany might have some trouble in the English channel where it would be in territorial waters. Spain to UK might make more sense.
	▲	pyrale 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Spain has also floated he idea of a HVDC cable to the UK, but it's never happened. Sometimes, headlines are out of control.