Electricity 'superhighway' between England and Scotland gets green light from Ofgem

Stuart Stone
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Multi-billion-pound project connecting Scotland and Yorkshire is first scheme to be approved under energy regulator's new fast-track approvals process for transmission infrastructure

Ofgem has today given the go-ahead for a multi-billion-pound high voltage "electricity superhighway" cable link that will run for more than 500 kilometres from Peterhead in Aberdeenshire to the Drax biomass...

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