Continental Link is a proposed 1,800 MW high-voltage direct current (HVDC) multi-purpose interconnector promoted by National Grid Ventures (NGV) to connect the British and Norwegian transmission systems. The project is designed as an offshore hybrid / multi-purpose interconnector enabling both cr...
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On 18 September 2023, National Grid presented the Continental Link Multi-Purpose Interconnector (“Continental”) as one of its three Offshore Hybrid Asset projects in development, alongside LionLink and Nautilus. The presentation described Continental as being at an early development stage with various design options under consideration, including a connection to Norway via a UK offshore wind farm and a parallel connection to Denmark, with indicative commercial operation timings of 2035 for the Norway link and 2033 for the Denmark link.
National Grid Ventures’ Continental Link Multi-Purpose Interconnector – a proposed HVDC interconnector from the UK seaward limit in the North Sea to a landfall on the Holderness Coast with grid connection via the Creyke Beck substation near Cottingham, East Yorkshire – has been formally withdrawn from the UK National Infrastructure Consenting (NSIP) process, with the Planning Inspectorate project page now showing its stage as withdrawn.
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Continental Link, MPI (Multi-Purpose Interconnector), NESO TEC PRO-000977
National Grid Ventures’ Continental Link Multi-Purpose Interconnector project has been marked as withdrawn on the UK National Infrastructure Consenting (Planning Inspectorate) portal, indicating that the planned Development Consent Order application for electric lines connecting to the Creyke Beck substation in East Yorkshire is no longer being progressed through that consent process.
The UK Planning Inspectorate’s National Infrastructure Consenting service records that the Continental Link Multi-Purpose Interconnector, an HVDC electric lines project promoted by National Grid Ventures to connect Great Britain to other European markets via the Creyke Beck substation near Cottingham, East Yorkshire, has been withdrawn from the consenting process. The project, which would have run from the UK seaward limit in the North Sea to a landfall on the Holderness Coast with grid connection at Creyke Beck, is now listed with the project stage marked as "withdrawn."
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