The
NorthConnect
project
company
was
formed
last
year
by
five
partners,
including
the
Scottish
and
Swedish
utilities
SSE
and
Vattenfall.
The
proposed
1.4GW
link
would
run
for
600km
between
Peterhead,
Scotland,
and
Samnanger,
Norway,
with
environmental
assessments
already
under
way
in
both
countries.
The
developers
hope
to
bring
the
interconnector
into
service
by
2020.
On
a
visit
to
Norway
–
one
of
his
nation's
most
important
trading
partners
–
Salmond
called
NorthConnect
an
“excellent
example”
of
the
next
generation
of
interconnector
projects
needed
to
balance
out
the
vast
amounts
of
variable
renewable-energy
generators
due…
