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Meet the buyer events hailed a success

29 April 2024

The Eastern Green Link 2 project team recently hosted Meet the Buyer events in both Peterhead and Goole, welcoming a combined total of over 250 representatives from local Aberdeenshire and North Yorkshire businesses.

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ET :Newsletter Infrastructure

Drax ground investigation works

29 April 2024

Ground investigation works have been taking place at the Wren Hall converter station site in Drax in recent months to prepare the site for the main construction phase. This has involved completing borehole works and archaeological surveys.

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Early works underway on Peterhead subsea electricity project

29 April 2024

Enabling works have begun on the proposed Eastern Green Link 2 converter station due to be constructed on a site south of Peterhead near Boddam.

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Update on our marine works

29 April 2024

The marine components of our project are making significant strides, with exciting developments on our marine cable route. At the heart of these advancements is our partnership with Prysmian, a contractor which specialises in the production of electrical cable.

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Tree planting kick starts EGL2’s environmental legacy

29 April 2024

Over 150 hardy saplings were planted along the eastern boundary of the Peterhead converter station site in March, in a first step towards creating Eastern Green Link 2’s environmental legacy.

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Eastern Green Link 2 receives provisional regulatory approval

26 March 2024

Eastern Green Link 2, an over-500km subsea connection between Scotland and Yorkshire will be the longest ever built in Great Britain, bolstering energy security and contributing to net zero targets

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