Sealink: Early Construction Funding consultation

Details of outcome

This document confirms our decision to approve Early Construction Funding (ECF) for the Sea Link (NOA code SCD1) electricity transmission project. This decision is taken in line with National Grid Electricity Transmission’s (NGET) electricity transmission licence (the Licence), Special Condition (SpC) 3.41 ‘Accelerated strategic transmission investment Re-opener and Price Control Deliverable term (ASTIRt)’.

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Background

The British Energy Security Strategy set out the Government's ambition to connect up to 50GW of offshore generation to the electricity network by 2030. In December 2022 we introduced a new ASTI framework that will assess, fund and incentivise the accelerated delivery of large strategic transmission projects required to deliver on the Government's ambition.

Original consultation

This consultation sets out our Early Construction Funding assessment of the Sea Link (SCD1) project under the Accelerated Strategic Transmission Investment (ASTI) re-opener.