Hawthorn Pit, with its existing National Grid infrastructure, provides a strong point on the UK’s electricity network to connect into and has the benefit of being relatively close to the coast, which reduces the length of onshore cable routes.
The site also benefits from land around the existing infrastructure on which to locate a new substation and converter station.
Connecting SEGL1 to this existing infrastructure, along with a further reinforcement of the network in Yorkshire (our Yorkshire GREEN project), provides the network capability needed to deliver cleaner, greener energy to the rest of the UK in the most optimum way. Many factors were very carefully considered, including balancing cost, benefit to the network, and minimising new infrastructure and impacts on people, places and the environment.