Current and proposed onshore transmission projects
This is a planned reinforcement on SHET’s network, which we expect to assess an Initial Needs Case for in 2021.
This is a planned project on NGET’s network, which we expect to assess a combined Final Needs Case and Project Assessment for in late 2021.
The three TOs, SHE-T, SPT and NGET, submitted an Initial Need Case for the proposed Eastern HVDC project in October 2020. We published a consultation setting out our views on the Initial Needs Case in May 2021.
This is a substation replacement on NGET’s network, which we expect to assess a Final Needs Case for in summer 2021, followed by a Project Assessment in late 2021.
This is a planned reinforcement to the Hackney, Tottenham and Waltham Cross parts of NGET’s network, which we expect to assess in 2021.
This is a subsea cable project that NGET is planning between East Anglia and Kent, which we expect to assess an Initial Needs Case for in 2021.
Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission (SHE-T) submitted the Final Needs Case for the Shetland project in early 2020. We approved the Final Needs Case for the project in July 2020.
We are currently carrying out a ‘Project Assessment’ of the Shetland project, with a view to determining the costs that SHE-T can recover for delivering the project.
This is a planned reinforcement on SHET’s network, which we expect to assess an Initial Needs Case for in summer 2021.
SHE-T submitted the Final Needs Case for the proposed Western Isles project in 2018. Following consultation in March 2019, we published an update in October 2019 that SHE-T’s stated condition for approving the project had not been met. We encouraged SHE-T to work with local stakeholders to consider submitting a revised Final Needs Case.
This is a planned reinforcement project in Yorkshire that NGET submitted an Initial Needs Case for in June 2021. We expect to consult on it in autumn 2021.
