GE Vernova’s Grid Options and MYTILINEOS Vitality & Metals have been awarded a £1 billion contract by Nationwide Grid Electrical energy Transmission and SP Transmission for the U.Ok.’s first high-capacity east coast subsea hyperlink.
The consortium was chosen to produce and assemble two HVDC converter stations for the Jap Inexperienced Hyperlink 1 enterprise, which incorporates development of a 525 kV, 2 GW bipole VSC and HVDC subsea transmission cable from Torness in East Lothian, Scotland, to Hawthorn Pit in County Durham, England.
GE Vernova and MYTILINEOS will moreover present engineering works and expertise for the 2 converter stations, which kind the terminals for the HVDC cable and convert the direct present to alternating present, enabling electrical energy transmission into the onshore community.
“Along with our consortium accomplice MYTILINEOS, we’re honored to have been awarded the HVDC contract for EGL1, one of many U.Ok’.s largest ever transmission tasks,” says Philippe Piron, president and CEO of GE Vernova’s Grid Options.
“This important challenge to the UK’s decarbonization and vitality safety efforts provides to a rising backlog of tasks which can be using GE Vernova’s superior HVDC expertise.”
Beneath the contract, GE Vernova will provide VSC HVDC expertise from its amenities in Stafford.
MYTILINEOS will likely be answerable for engineering, procurement and development of civil works, stability of plant and tools set up.
The challenge will allow transmission to energy greater than two million houses throughout the U.Ok., says the consortium. Its design section will start subsequent month, with development set for 2025.
