Viking Link
Viking Link is a planned HVDC submarine power cable between Bicker Fen in Lincolnshire, the United Kingdom and Revsing in southern Jutland, Denmark.[1]
The project is a cooperation between British National Grid and Danish Energinet.dk.[1]
The interconnector would be capable of transmitting up to 1,400 MW at 400 kV.[2]
With a length of 740 km of which 650 km would pass through Danish, German, Dutch and British waters[1] it would cross and be longer than the world's currently longest submarine power cable, the 580 km long NorNed.
As of February 2016 the project is in a very early development phase with contracts awarded to Intertek and NIRAS as consultants to support the process of getting permits and the marine surveys that will determine the cable routing.[1][3] Viking was put on the EU "Projects of Common Interest" list in November 2015, along with the COBRAcable between Jutland and the Netherlands, and the Krieger offshore wind turbine cable to Germany.[4]
The cable is expected to be operational by the end of 2022.[5]
See also
- Triton Knoll, offshore wind farm under planning 2015, also with an onshore cable linking to Bicker Fen
- Energy in Denmark
- Energy in the United Kingdom
- Electricity sector in Denmark
- Electricity sector in the United Kingdom
- COBRAcable, a cable under construction between Denmark and the Netherlands
- NSN Link, a cable under construction between the United Kingdom and Norway
External links
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Viking Link Interconnector". viking-link.com. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
- ↑ "Viking Link Interconnector - 4C Offshore". 4coffshore.com. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
- ↑ Torben Glar Nielsen. "Denmark set to make billions from electricity interconnector between the UK and Denmark and new interconnection with Germany" Energinet.dk, 16 March 2016. Accessed: 16 March 2016.
- ↑ "Union list of projects of common interest" (PDF). European Commission. 2015-11-18. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
- ↑ "Denmark - National Grid". nationalgrid.com. Retrieved 2016-02-03.