Work has started on installing a new 1GW power link between the UK and France – a project that could help spur trading of renewable power as part of a future European ‘supergrid’.
ElecLink, a unit of Channel Tunnel operator Eurotunnel, is to invest around €580m ($614m) on the 69km link – the first interconnector project to be commissioned between the UK and France since 1986.
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