The UK National Grid’s 2 gigawatt electricity link to France, the IFA1 interconnector, will conduct system tests between January 24 and 27 before both sides return to service, data from Elexon Remit showed on Monday.
“During this period, intermittent tests will be carried out up to 500 megawatts (MW) in both directions until the electricity connection is” commercially available at 2000 MW, ” according to the National Grid message.
The IFA1 interconnector, which was damaged in 2021 by a fire that affected half of its capacity, was supposed to be fully operational again in December last year, but the outage was later extended.
National Grid has four operational interconnectors – two in France (IFA1 and IFA2), one to the Netherlands (BritNed) and one in Belgium (Nemo Link).
