Material requirements for electricity grids
This note provides an overview of the required materials in transformers, overhead transmission lines, and underground and subsea cables. An estimation of the required amounts of each material is provided for each component (material intensities; in kg per component or per metre) and the future European grid (material demand forecast).
NOHL Lucy;
FINCK Rafael;
MAGNANI Nicola;
VOLKANOVSKI Andrija;
BLACK Catriona;
TZIMAS Evangelos;
2025-10-03
European Commission
JRC143190
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC143190,
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