The England-France Interconnector is a 2,000MW high voltage direct current (HVDC) link between the French and British transmission systems with ownership shared between National Grid and Réseau de Transport d'Electricité (RTE). The UK landing point is at Baker's Gap, near Folkestone from where the interconnector is cabled underground to Sellindge converter station and connected to the transmission system. The interconnector is approximately 70km in length with 45km of subsea cable. The availability has consistently exceeded 97% per year.

National Grid Interconnectors Limited has been established and incorporated as a wholly owned subsidiary of National Grid Plc to receive an interconnector licence as a consequence of the Energy Act 2004 and taking effect on Monday 14 August 2006.

National Grid Interconnectors Ltd will jointly own and operate the Interconnexion France Angleterre (IFA) with RTE SA (the French transmission system operator).

The links below provide further interconnector specific information.

• National Grid and RTE announce results of the Weekend Auctions
• National Grid and RTE announce results of the Monthly Auctions
• National Grid and RTE announce results of the Quarterly Auctions
• National Grid and RTE announce results of the Seasonal Auctions
• National Grid and RTE announce results of the Annual Auctions

At the end of 2000, the National Grid Company plc (which refers to the name by which National Grid was formerly known) and Réseau de Transport d'Electricité (RTE) published arrangements for the allocation of capacity rights on the England-France Interconnector (IFA) which would be effective from 1 April 2001. Capacity rights on the England-France Interconnector were made available to third parties through the published Access Arrangements, facilitating further the opportunities for cross border energy trading.

Capacity is offered for sale to Eligible Users, separately in the direction England to France and France to England through tenders and auctions, for different contractual periods.

More information on the access arrangements are available here.

Results

This section allows the visitor to view and download historic capacity prices and volumes.

Participation / Eligibility Requirements

This section provides an overview of the requirements necessary to be fulfilled in order to become an Eligible User.

Documentation

This link allows the user to download a number of documents necessary to be completed in order to fulfil the eligibility criteria.

Notice and General Information

This section provides additional information relative to the access arrangements.

Daily Auction Results | Outage Programme 2006 | How to become a user (currently being updated) | FAQs

If you require any additional information regarding the access arrangements please e-mail including IFA in the subject heading to: interconnectors.business@uk.ngrid.com