
£4.3 B UK electricity superhighway starts construction
Construction on the £4.3 billion ($5.8 billion) EGL2 project took a step forward on Thursday with a simultaneous ground-breaking ceremony in Scotland and England.
Construction on the £4.3 billion ($5.8 billion) EGL2 project took a step forward on Thursday with a simultaneous ground-breaking ceremony in Scotland and England.
Ofgem has given its final approval on the costs associated with the delivery of Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2), enabling construction to start on the 525 kV 2 GW subsea connection.
Eastern Green Link 2, an >500 km subsea connection between Scotland and Yorkshire will be the longest ever built in Great Britain.
The EGL2 is a joint venture between British power transmission network owners SSEN Transmission and the National Grid Electricity Transmission.
Enabling work has started on the proposed Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) converter station that is due to be built on a site south of Peterhead, near Boddam.
Development consent has been granted for UK’s largest green electricity transmission reinforcement project, EGL2.