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Subsea power cable to Yorkshire marks two years of construction
SSEN Transmission and National Grid Electricity Transmission have marked two years of construction on EGL2, their £4.3 billion joint venture to lay a 505km high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable between Peterhead and Drax. The cable, the UK's longest subsea HVDC link, will carry 2GW of capacity when complete, enough for around two million homes.
Our readThe cable's southern end lands at a new converter station at Wren Hall, near Drax, which turns the direct current back into the alternating current the grid uses.
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