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Basslink is a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable link crossing Bass Strait, connecting the Loy Yang Power Station, Victoria on the Australian mainland to the George Town substation in northern Tasmania. It can supply some of the peak load capacity to the mainland of Australia and take some of the excess base load capacity off the coal-fired generators on the mainland to supply Tasmania, leading to all round economic and pollution savings. Tasmania benefits in that its need to invest in further base load generation facilities is deferred or eliminated, and it can profit by selling peak load power into a market in which prices are generally higher. The cable has also been used to supply power to Tasmania in times of drought, as the majority of Tasmania's electricity generation is hydroelectricity. ==History== When the Board of Hydro Tasmania originally entered into a preliminary agreement to build Basslink in 2000, it was projected to cost $500 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.electricity.dpac.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/155297/Basslink_-_Decision_Making,_Expectations_and_Outcomes.pdf )〕 Efforts to prevent corrosion of pipelines and other factors ultimately meant it cost around A$800m to build.〔(Dark Days Loom For Power Supply. 06/11/2011. The Age )〕 The interconnector was constructed between 2003 and 2005 as an asset of National Grid Australia Pty Ltd, which itself was owned by UK company National Grid plc. On 1 December 2005, electrical power flowed across Basslink for the first time, as part of the testing procedure. At midnight on the morning of Saturday, 29 April 2006, the link was officially enabled for commercial trading of energy on the National Electricity Market.〔(Power flows through Basslink. 29/04/2006. ABC News Online )〕 On 31 August 2007, CitySpring Infrastructure Trust, a wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek, completed the acquisition of Basslink with a total enterprise value of A$1.175 billion.〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Basslink」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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