Viking Link World's Longest Subsea Power Cable Project
                     Viking Link World's 
Longest Subsea Power 
Cable Project
Introduction
Building work on the world's longest subsea power cable, which will 
operate between Britain and Denmark to distribute clean energy between 
the two countries, has begun in Lincolnshire. 
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Description
The 765 km (475 mile) cable is a joint venture between National Grid in the UK 
and the Energinet in Denmark. By 2023, the high-voltage, direct-current link can 
transmit the equivalent of sufficient electricity to power 1.5 m British homes 
between Bicker Fen in Lincolnshire and Denmark 's South Jutland area.
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Viking Link
Viking Link is one of the new super-cable ventures, each considered to be a 
major step towards the UK's net-zero carbon emission goal as National Grid 
would be able to tap more renewable energy resources to replace fossil fuels. 
Source: Renew Link
The Need
• The UK has approximately 5GW of power cable capacity linking Britain's 
electricity network to the electricity generated in the Netherlands , France, and 
Ireland. 
• By the middle of the decade, this capacity is projected to increase five times to 
25GW through a series of projects including more subsea cables to France 
and Ireland and new links to Norway , Denmark, Germany and Belgium.
Source: National Grid
Sustainability
The project also ensures that less domestic renewable energy would go to waste 
on days where there is more wind and solar power than the UK can use, as 
National Grid will export the extra electricity through the cable instead of calling 
for wind and solar farms to turn off. 
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Cost Benefit
• The project will firmly put Lincolnshire at the center of our economic recovery 
and build employment throughout the county. 
• It will also improve our energy efficiency, the customer bills and give our 
domestic renewable generators a greater opportunity to export zero-carbon 
electricity worldwide.
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Mission Save Earth
• Our freedom at this crucial moment for our world helps us to always warn 
readers about risks, implications and approaches based on scientific reality, 
not political ideology or business interests. 
• That is what makes us special. We divested from the oil and gas fields, 
renounced the ads of fossil fuels and committed to achieving carbon neutrality 
by 2030.
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Other Project
A more ambitious project has been proposed to link Britain to Iceland via 
a 620-mile subsea cable, but progress has been slow on those plans.
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Expected Project Date
Through 2023, the direct-current high-voltage link will transmit the 
equivalent of sufficient electricity to power 1.5 million British homes 
between Bicker Fen in Lincolnshire and the South Jutland region in 
Denmark
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Conclusion
• National Grid of the UK and Energinet of Denmark have started 
construction on the longest subsea power cable in the world. 
• In Lincolnshire is being constructed the €2 billion Viking Link network, 
a 475-mile-long (765 km) cable. This will run between Great Britain 
and Denmark to exchange renewable energy between the two 
nations.
Source: The Engineer