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Germany and the UK will be connected by a high-voltage cable 1,4 GW

29.07.2022

Another step has been taken towards the construction of a 1,4 GW high-voltage cable connecting Germany with the UK. A consortium of 20 lenders led by the European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed to provide €400m ($406,5m) for the NeuConnect interconnector project, a €2,8bn high-voltage DC link connecting Germany to the UK.

"The investor consortium is led by French investor Meridiam, Allianz Capital Partners and Japan's Kansai Electric Power," the EIB said in a statement. There are other banks besides the EIB, notably the UK Infrastructure Bank and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).

Construction on the project should begin before the end of this year, and completion is scheduled for 2028.

The predominantly submarine cable will be 725 km long, with a power of 1,4 GW and a DC voltage of 525 kV. It will connect a Tennet-operated converter station near Fedderwarden in Germany to the National Grid-operated UK network via a converter station on the Isle of Grein.

The German conglomerate Siemens will build the converter stations, while cable manufacturer Prysmian will lay the cable.

In September 2020, Tennet and National Grid announced a cooperation agreement to explore the possibility of connecting Dutch and British wind farms to the power systems of both countries using underwater electrical cables called interconnectors.

Under the terms of the cooperation agreement, the two grid operators will explore the development of a Multi-Purpose Interconnector (MPI) to connect up to 4 gigawatts of UK and Dutch offshore wind power simultaneously between the British and Dutch power grids, providing an additional 2 GW of capacity.

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