Subsea project to bring renewable power from Scotland to England awarded £1.8bn
by Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#6H30A)
Eastern Green Link 1 has been designed to carry enough clean electricity to power 2m UK households
One of Britain's biggest power grid projects has awarded contracts worth 1.8bn for a 190km subsea electricity superhighway to bring renewable power from Scotland to the north of England.
National Grid and Scottish Power plan to begin building the transformative" 2.5bn high-voltage power line along the east coast of the country from East Lothian to County Durham from 2025.
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