Hot on the heels of an exclusive preferred bidder agreement for the Eastern Green Link 2 cable connection in the UK, Italy’s Prysmian has been pre-selected by SP Transmission and National Grid Electricity Transmission for the Eastern Green Link 1.
Earlier this month, the Milan-based cabling giant said contract talks with SSEN Transmission and National Grid Electricity Transmission, for a 500 km long link between Peterhead in Scotland and Drax in the North of England are ongoing with the aim of sealing the deal in a “timely manner”.
A new deal for a planned high voltage direct current (HVDC) submarine and underground cable link of around 200 km route length between Torness in Scotland and Hawthorn Pit in the North of England is now also on the cards.
Eastern Green Link 1, with a power transmission capacity of 2 GW, is expected to be the first cable system in the UK to utilise 525 kV technology with extruded XLPE insulation. The link forms part of a series of planned system reinforcements required to boost the capability of the existing UK transmission network and facilitate the growth in flows of renewable generation in the North to demand centres to the South, supporting the target of enabling 50 GW offshore wind generation by 2030.
