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Project advancing - milestone achieved
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Significant progress or notable issue
Eastern Green Link 2 (a joint venture between SSEN Transmission and National Grid) signed a contract with the Prysmian Group to supply the HVDC subsea and underground cable for the 525 kV, 2 GW link between Peterhead and Drax. The award covers around 1,000 km of cable and Prysmian confirmed it could supply manufacture and installation capacity — including access to cable-laying vessels — to meet the project’s programme and the target energisation in 2029. The contract signing represented a delivery-stage milestone intended to mitigate global HVDC supply-chain risk for the project.