The 57-kilometre connection route will connect low-carbon energy from EDF Energy’s Hinkley Point C Nuclear Power Plant to six million homes and businesses. The T-pylons were designed to reduce the visual impact and to take up less room on the land. National Grid’s T-pylons are the first new design for overhead electricity lines in over a century and will play a central role in transmitting cleaner, homegrown energy around the UK. All the T-pylons will be energised by the end of 2024.
Hinkley Point C will be the first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK in over 20 years and will supply around 7% of the country’s electricity. The first of its two EPR reactors will be connected to the grid in 2027 and the second in 2028.
