A. Utility companies have done quite a remarkable job managing the existing grid in North America.

北美的公用事业公司在管理现有电网方面取得了非常显著的成果。

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The EWEA estimates the cost for building a grid connecting countries across the North Sea region including the Baltic Sea, Irish Sea and English Channel would cost in the region of $40 billion.

EWEA估计，要建造一个连接北海地区（包括波罗的海、爱尔兰海以及英吉利海峡）所有国家的超级电网，造价在400亿美元左右。

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Herbivores and carnivores alike want to unblock the expansion of the electricity grid, which will be needed to ship power from wind farms in the North Sea to consumers in southern Germany.

肉食主义者和素食主义者都希望除去电网扩展的障碍。德国利用这些电网将在北海附近风力农场发的电运送到德国南部的消费者家中。

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Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway and Belgium agreed to coordinate investments and project development plans to roll out the offshore wind power grid across the North Sea, the Channel, Celtic Sea and Irish Sea.

FORBES: Offshore Wind Race Accelerates Across Atlantic

Nor does anyone want a rerun of the overloading in early November of Germany's grid that left 10 million Europeans in five countries without power over a weekend, or of the collapse of the rickety North American grid in 2003.

FORBES: Magazine Article

One way to change this would be to turn the east-west gas pipelines into a grid, with interconnectors running north to south.

ECONOMIST: Energy security in Europe