Learn about our project timeline and what specific works are happening in your area.
Works in your area
Click on your area to learn about the current and upcoming works.
If you have any queries or issues about the works in your area, please contact our team. Details are on this website’s Contact us page.
Our main works contractors
Our project will involve hundreds of contractors, both big and small. But these are the four main organisations that are responsible for EGL1’s key infrastructure – its converter stations and cables.
Converter stations
Cables
England connection works
What our converter station sites look like now
Torness - February 2025
Hawthorn Pit – November 2024
Project high level timeline
Scottish onshore works
2023
SP Energy Networks received in principle planning permission by East Lothian Council for the Scottish onshore elements of the project
2024 - early 2025
Enabling works, including land, geophysical and archaeological surveys
2025 - 2028
Underground cable installation between Torness converter station and Thorntonlock Beach
2025 - 2028
Torness Converter Station construction and installation
2028
Completion of Torness Converter Station, and cable installation - system testing to begin
English onshore works
2022
Planning consent granted outline planning permission by Durham County Council for the English onshore elements of the project
2024 - early 2025
Enabling works, including land, geophysical and archaeological surveys
2025 - 2028
Murton Converter Station construction and installation
2026 - 2028
Underground cable installation between Murton Converter Station and Seaham Hall beach
2028
Completion of Murton Converter Station and cable installation - system testing to begin
Marine works
2023
Marine licences for the 176 km of subsea cables have been granted by the Marine Management Organisation and Marine Scotland
2024 - 2025
Survey and boulder clearance works across the marine route
2027 - 2028
Installation of 176 km of subsea cables