Viking Link interconnector launched
Viking Link is National Grid’s 6th interconnector, and the UK’s 9th.
Viking Link converter station (Image credit: National Grid)
UK, London: National Grid has formally launched Viking Link, a 475-mile-long land and subsea cable connecting British and Danish energy grids for the first time. Running from Bicker Fen converter station in Lincolnshire to one in southern Jutland, Denmark, across both land and sea, Viking Link is sharing British and Danish wind power.
The interconnector is National Grid’s sixth and the UK’s ninth, and is a vital instrument in delivering low cost, low carbon power to consumers, helping the power grids to balance the peaks and troughs that come with the growing amount of wind power needed to tackle climate change. Since its initial operations in December 2023, Viking Link has transported 1,733 GWh of power between the two countries. In its first year, the interconnector could save 600,000 tonnes of carbon emissions, and in its first decade, it could bring over £500 million of savings for UK consumers while providing enough power for 2.5 million households.
Source: National Grid