Balfour Beatty lands £214m job to link Hinkley to the grid

Balfour Beatty

National Grid has also handed a cabling contract to Murphy

Balfour Beatty has been appointed to a £214m job to connect Hinkley Point C to the National Grid.

Britain’s largest contractor is already building a 9km cable to a substation in nearby Sandford but will now also construct a 48km overhead line through the Mendip Hills in Somerset to a new substation on the coast at Avonmouth, near Bristol.

 

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