Collaboration center opens in Glasgow for Scotland-England subsea green electricity superhighways

A new collaboration center that will bring together around 80 green energy workers contributing to the delivery of a series of subsea electricity transmission links between Scotland and England has been officially opened in Glasgow, Scotland.

The Eastern Green Link (EGL) Collaboration Centre will bring together employees from the SSEN Transmission and National Grid Electricity Transmission joint venture (JV), as well as the supply chain partners they have appointed, to deliver the EGL series of electricity transmission subsea superhighways, starting with EGL2, whose construction began in September.

“EGL2 and EGL3 are two crucial projects that we’re working to deliver at SSEN Transmission as part of our £20bn ‘Pathway to 2030’ investment programme to help achieve the energy security and net zero goals of Scotland and the UK,” said Rob McDonald, SSEN Transmission’s Managing Director.

“Having a dedicated office space in the centre of Glasgow for the EGL pipeline of subsea projects will see the central belt, as well as the north and north east of Scotland, benefitting economically from the delivery of this crucial new infrastructure.”

Opened by Glasgow North MP, Martin Rhodes, today, November 8, the facility includes a Performance Centre which makes use of cutting-edge technology to drive performance, a dedicated area for supply chain partners to collaborate, and a space where both transmission operators can come together.

“This collaboration centre is National Grid’s first bricks and mortar presence in Glasgow, and we are pleased to also be increasing our presence across our other joint ventures in Scotland due to the size and scale of our projects,” said Carl Trowell, National Grid Electricity Transmission’s President for UK Strategic Infrastructure.

“National Grid is investing £30bn in the UK over the next five years; a transformational step up in clean energy infrastructure investment, unprecedented in its scale and ambition. This investment is a stimulus for economic growth and will support 55,000 more UK jobs by the end of the decade, while also accelerating the decarbonisation of the energy system for the digital, electrified economies of the future.”

According to SSEN Transmission, EGL2 and EGL3 will be the biggest electricity transmission projects ever delivered in the UK and will play a critical role in helping Scotland and the UK to meet energy security and clean power targets.

Four EGL links form part of planned electricity grid reinforcements to boost the capability of the existing UK transmission network and facilitate increased flows of planned renewable generation in the North to demand centers to the South, supporting the ambition of enabling 50 GW of offshore wind generation by 2030 and achieving a net-zero economy by 2050.

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