Plans to build an undersea electricity link between the UK and Denmark took another step forward yesterday with news safety services provider Intertek and offshore engineering specialist NIRAS have been appointed as marine consultants to the project.
The two firms will assist National Grid and its Danish counterpart Energinet.dk in the development of the Viking Link - a proposal to create a high-voltage power connection between the UK and Denmark using subsea and underground cables.
Although still in early development, the Viking Link project could run from Lincolnshire in the UK to southern Jutland in Denmark, providing a 1,400MW capacity electrical connection between the two countries.
Crossing through Germany and Holland, the 740km project is slated for completion in 2022.
Intertek and NIRAS will be responsible for securing consent from German, Dutch, UK, and Danish authorities to install the subsea and underground cabling for the project, while also delivering the route design, environmental assessment and marine survey work.
The majority of the consultancy work will be completed by spring 2017, according to a statement on the Viking Link project website.
The two-way cable link will allow the UK to import large amounts of clean electricity from Denmark, which sources more than 40 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources. The country already has strong electrical linkages with neighbouring Sweden and Norway, which it uses to export excess renewable electricity from its fleet of on and offshore wind turbines.
In October a leaked letter penned by Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Amber Rudd revealed that her department is considering using the Viking Link to import clean electricity into the UK as a way of meeting the UK's own clean energy targets.
Ministers on both sides of the North Sea have long argued that interconnectors could help boost renewable energy output and reduce the cost of clean power, by making it easier for intermittent renewable energy generators to sell excess power into neighbouring markets during periods of peak supply.
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