Construction begins on subsea electricity superhighway
Iberdrola announced that construction of the Eastern Green Link 1, a subsea electricity superhighway, has officially started. The £2.5 billion project is a joint venture between SP Energy Networks and National Grid Electricity Transmission. It will transport renewable energy to power two million homes through over 190 km of undersea cables connecting Scotland and England. The project, approved by Ofgem last year, has now begun onshore construction, with offshore works scheduled to start in the…