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Global Energy Interconnection Across Continents
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Energy interconnection projects serve a fundamental role in enhancing grid stability, promoting energy efficiency, and reducing carbon emissions. By linking regional power networks across continents, they allow countries to share electricity resources in a more flexible and. High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) technologies, due to their lower losses and smaller environmental impact, promise to be the cornerstones of such global power grid. Global energy interconnection (GEI) represents the ultimate evolution of the trend towards greater interconnection of power systems. In the United States, the Net-Zero America report by Princeton University projects that electrification of transportation and heating will also increase electricity demand, which is expected to more than double by 2050 across all pathways to net zero (Larson et al.
