Turlough Hill

Things like grid upgrades, domestic renewables, interconnectors with redundancy, and public transport built to cost, not to impress.

Madrid's metro, Singapore's grid strategy, and Ireland's Turlough Hill pump storage plant are all examples of infrastructure that works because it was designed with delivery in mind, where the key is speed, simplicity, and replicability, not scale and spectacle.

One of the most underappreciated risks of the Xlinks project was its reliance on a single ultra-long subsea cable.

Recent incidents have highlighted the vulnerability of undersea infrastructure.