National Grid shares proposals for its Eastern Green Link 5 scheme

The Eastern Green Link 3 project will create a High Voltage Direct Current link from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire to south Lincolnshire and west Norfolk. The Eastern Green Link 4 project will create a further HVDC link from eastern Scotland to south Lincolnshire and west Norfolk. The Eastern Green Link 5 project will create a high voltage electricity link, with associated onshore infrastructure, between Scotland and England. EGL 5’s subsea offshore cables would run from Scotland and make landfall on the Lincolnshire coastline at Anderby Creek.

The proposed network installations are required to increase capability and facilitate the connection of proposed new offshore wind projects and localised renewable energy supplies along the transmission route.

Whilst EGL3, 4 & 5 will be largely offshore, onshore infrastructure such as converter stations and substations as well as underground cables will be required to connect the systems to the areas where the electricity is required. Interactive plans are publicly available on the National Grid website EGL5 Public Statutory Consultation Web App and further info will be available at public consultation events, for more details visit:  Our proposals (EGL 5) | National Grid

A proposed map of the EGL 5 infrastructure (Source: National Grid)

A proposed map of the EGL3 & 4 infrastructure (Source: National Grid)

If you are an affected party then you are entitled to professional representation, the cost of which is covered by the scheme. We have already been instructed by a number of landowners and would like to offer our services to you.

If you think you may be affected, for more information or an informal and confidential chat please contact Daniel Jobe, Partner in our Lincoln office on 07813 646619, or Edward Blundy, Partner in our King's Lynn office on 07768 465747.