EuroRing Control
EuroRing is a private 1.5 MV UHVAC transmission ring — a neutral courier of electrons that makes renewables dispatchable by moving power to where the weather is generous. The market decides every flow; this control plane carries them safely, and on any question of safety, engineering is final.
Operational modules
Everything that runs the ring — one estate, one synchronised state, over the Simlink fabric.
Ring Control Room
The HQ single-line: live flows, frequency & inertia, capacity, operational state, fail-safe & restoration.
Hub Control Rooms
Per-hub substation HMIs — 415 kV bus, protection, 1.5 MV transformers, cable withdrawal, TSGB hall, black start.
Asset Register
Hubs, links, transformer banks, TSGB machine halls and Monitor Nodes — with live health.
Maintenance
Work orders and permits-to-work, interlocked against the live ring so nothing is worked while live.
Shift Log
Duty roster, control-room log book and shift handover — the ring is flown by people.
Council Control
Governance: the Engineering & Commercial Councils, Management, and the firewall between them.
Incident Register
Every operational event, with severity and the Incident Commander of record.
Market ↗
The EuroRing marketplace — where nations buy and sell power. Control publishes the capacity it may carry.
What EuroRing is
The ring is watched by an algorithm and flown by people. The algorithm advises; the people decide; the market dispatches; engineering, on safety, is final.
EuroRing owns no generation and takes no side. It moves power between nations across a synchronous 1.5 MV ring, each link rated 4.5 GW.
No central optimiser. Nations forecast for themselves and trade; determinism is an emergent property of market access to a weather-diverse planet.
The 1.5 MV side is never switched. On loss of control the ring de-energises from the 400 kV side and physically withdraws its cables ~30 m to a galvanic air gap.
A dead national grid is brought back already in phase with the ring — BESS seeds the waveform, the TSGB fleet synchronises to the live cable, the grid comes up born synchronised.
The ring
Five nations, each meeting the ring at a hub. UK is the Type A superhub at Felixstowe — the topological root.
| Nation | Tier | Landing | Bus | SF6 | Ceiling | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | Type A | Felixstowe | DoubleBusbar | Plant (root) | 19 GW | Open |
| Ireland | Type B | Dublin | SingleBusbarSectionalised | Fed from A | 11.4 GW | Open |
| France | Type B | Dunkerque | SingleBusbarSectionalised | Fed from A | 11.4 GW | Open |
| Spain | Type B | Bilbao | SingleBusbarSectionalised | Fed from A | 11.4 GW | Open |
| Belgium | Type C | Zeebrugge | SingleBusbar | Fed from A | 3.8 GW | Open |
| Germany | Type A | Hamburg | DoubleBusbar | Plant (root) | 19 GW | Open |
| Holland | Type B | Eemshaven | SingleBusbarSectionalised | Fed from A | 11.4 GW | Open |
| Norway | Type B | Kristiansand | SingleBusbarSectionalised | Fed from A | 11.4 GW | Open |
| Denmark | Type C | Esbjerg | SingleBusbar | Fed from A | 3.8 GW | Open |
| Poland | Type C | Gdansk | SingleBusbar | Fed from A | 3.8 GW | Open |
| Morocco | Type A | Tangier | DoubleBusbar | Plant (root) | 19 GW | Open |
| Algeria | Type C | Oran | SingleBusbar | Fed from A | 3.8 GW | Open |
| Tunisia | Type C | Tunis | SingleBusbar | Fed from A | 3.8 GW | Open |
| Iceland | Type C | Reykjavik | SingleBusbar | Fed from A | 3.8 GW | Open |
| Greenland | Type C | Nuuk | SingleBusbar | Fed from A | 3.8 GW | Open |
| Canada | Type C | St John's | SingleBusbar | Fed from A | 3.8 GW | Open |
| Italy | Type A | Genoa | DoubleBusbar | Plant (root) | 19 GW | Open |
| Portugal | Type B | Sines | SingleBusbarSectionalised | Fed from A | 11.4 GW | Open |
| Greece | Type C | Athens | SingleBusbar | Fed from A | 3.8 GW | Open |
| Croatia | Type C | Rijeka | SingleBusbar | Fed from A | 3.8 GW | Open |
| Romania | Type C | Constanța | SingleBusbar | Fed from A | 3.8 GW | Open |
| Bulgaria | Type C | Varna | SingleBusbar | Fed from A | 3.8 GW | Open |
| Sweden | Type A | Stockholm | DoubleBusbar | Plant (root) | 19 GW | Open |
| Finland | Type B | Helsinki | SingleBusbarSectionalised | Fed from A | 11.4 GW | Open |
| Estonia | Type C | Tallinn | SingleBusbar | Fed from A | 3.8 GW | Open |
| Latvia | Type C | Riga | SingleBusbar | Fed from A | 3.8 GW | Open |
| Lithuania | Type C | Klaipeda | SingleBusbar | Fed from A | 3.8 GW | Open |
| Egypt | Type B | Alexandria | SingleBusbarSectionalised | Fed from A | 11.4 GW | Open |
| Libya | Type C | Tripoli | SingleBusbar | Fed from A | 3.8 GW | Open |
| Austria | Type C | Vienna | SingleBusbar | Fed from A | 3.8 GW | Open |