Ofgem approves a £3.4bn electricity “super highway” between Scotland and England
Ofgem has approved a £3.4 billion electricity “super highway” between Scotland and England in the biggest single investment for electricity transmission infrastructure in Britain. The 500-kilometre Eastern Green Link 2 project will stretch from Aberdeenshire to north Yorkshire and will transport vast amounts of renewable energy between Scotland and England.
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00:00Hello, my name is Greg Wright. I'm the Deputy Business Editor of the Yorkshire Post and here are your headlines for this morning.
00:08Ofgem has approved a £3.4 billion electricity superhighway between Scotland and England in the biggest single investment for electricity transmission infrastructure in Britain.
00:21The 500km Eastern Green Link 2 project will stretch from Aberdeenshire to North Yorkshire, but will transport vast amounts of renewable energy between Scotland and England.
00:32The joint venture between Scottish and Southern electricity networks and National Grid is part of a push to modernise the electricity grid to deal with greater demands placed on it by the clean power transition.
00:44So an update this morning from Ofgem, which has approved a £3.4 billion electricity superhighway between Scotland and England.
00:53My name's Greg Wright. I'm the Deputy Business Editor of the Yorkshire Post.