The public consultation has been extended until 11:59pm on Tuesday 17 September 2024 to give people additional time to have their say and provide feedback.
Building a new power line between Chesterfield and Willington will increase the capacity in the centre of the country, enabling cleaner, greener energy to be carried around the network, benefiting homes and businesses in Derbyshire and beyond, and supporting the UK’s offshore wind and net zero targets.
In the first edition of our project newsletter, we introduce the North Wessex Downs Visual Impact Provision (VIP) project as we move into the first stages of construction. We also give an overview of VIP in England and Wales and how we’ve been keeping busy in the local community.
A 174-tonne supergrid transformer (SGT) arrived in Bridgwater substation in Somerset in May, having travelled on boat from Rotterdam, sailed up the River Parrett and been manoeuvred by specialist teams through Bridgwater town to the nearby substation.
The team will also be working on alternate weekends from 6-7 July through until early August between the hours of 8.00am-4.00pm.
This work is to allow us to complete the construction of the new temporary pylons at each end of the route before the autumn, which are needed before we start work to bury and install the new cables underground later this year.
The 143rd pylon, located in Crooks Marsh, was completed on 25 June. It is 50 metres tall and joins 26 traditional lattice pylons that have been built in Avonmouth over the past two years and which will form part of the UK's high voltage transmission network.
Once the conductors are installed it will connect into Seabank substation as the northernmost section of the Hinkley Connection, which will bring low carbon energy to 6 million homes and businesses across the country.
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All great things come in pairs and this super grid transformer is now installed alongside a similar one delivered last July. Its connection onto the electricity transmission network is an important part of the ongoing Hinkley Connection Project.
The Hylton Castle substation will provide a new grid connection for Nissan, AESC UK and Sunderland City Council’s ambitious EV36Zero electric vehicle hub at IAMP, which brings together EV manufacture, battery production and a renewable energy microgrid.
Once completed and energised in 2026, Hylton Castle substation will – with its three new 100-tonne supergrid transformers and advanced control systems – reinforce the network in the region and create electricity capacity on site equivalent to powering around half a million homes for a day.