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Balfour Beatty wins first phase of National Grid's Birkhill Wood substation
Balfour Beatty has been awarded the first phase of National Grid's Birkhill Wood 400kV substation in East Yorkshire, covering early contractor involvement and enabling works under the £8 billion Electricity Transmission Partnership framework. The substation will connect three planned North Sea offshore wind farms, with capacity to power around four million homes, and main construction is due to start in 2027.
Our readThe contract covers design and early works only, so the real delivery test, and the jobs it brings, arrives when main construction starts in 2027.
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