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4 July 2003 - The UK's National Grid Company said Thursday that it planned to go ahead with building a $1.2bn subsea cable to Norway, following a decision by the British government to overrule local opposition to a key installation.
National Grid said Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott had ruled that planning permission should be granted for a converter station after the district council in Easington, near Sunderland had refused planning permission.
"Now we can put a tick in the box on this particular issue," said a National Grid spokesman.
National Grid is developing the project jointly with Norwegian grid Statnett and said it hoped to reach a final decision to proceed with the 750-kilometre (466-mile) cable in the early autumn and expected to start flowing power between the two countries in late 2007.
The power interconnector would allow the UK to import electricity from Norway during wet periods when hydroelectric production was high. Conversely it would allow exports from the UK during dry spells.
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