Welcome to the Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) website. 

Here you can learn more about our project, why it’s needed and how we plan on building it.

Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) will reinforce Britain’s electricity network with a 2-gigawatt high voltage direct current (HVDC) electrical ‘superhighway’ cable link between Peterhead in Aberdeenshire and Drax in North Yorkshire, most of which will run in the North Sea.

When complete in 2029, it will carry enough electricity for two million households. 

The project is being jointly developed by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks Transmission (SSEN Transmission)  and National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET).

After several years of community consultation and refining our plans for EGL2, and enabling works to ready the site in Peterhead, we have started construction on our two converter stations. In the coming months and years construction will also begin on our 69km of onshore underground cable and 436km of subsea cable.

In August, Ofgem confirmed its final approval for funding, and we have also had planning permission granted at both our converter station sites.

EGL2 is due to be fully operational by 2029.

Read more about EGL2, the project timeline and why it is needed