"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message
news
In article ,
Max Demian writes:
On 08/03/2018 23:14, Marland wrote:
Andrew Gabriel

Before the Berlin wall came down, there were two continental Europe
synchronisation zones, Western Europe run from Switzerland, and
Eastern Europe run from Moscow. The first was +/- 0.1Hz, the second
was +/- 1Hz, IIRC. The western side was actually very short on spare
capacity (particularly Germany), and the east had lots, but from
highly poluting sources. When the wall came down, Germany was in a
dilema at the time on using power from the east which Western German
industry desperately needed, but seriously pumping up the resulting

What were the reasons for the UK having its own grid, with a *DC* connection
to mainland Europe? Was it just that the UK wasn't part of Europe at the
time, or was there another more technical, less political reason?