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Ofgem has approved a £3.4 billion electricity "super highway" between Scotland and England in the biggest single investment for electricity transmission infrastructure in Britain. The 500-kilometre Eastern Green Link 2 project will stretch from Aberdeenshire to north Yorkshire and will transport vast amounts of renewable energy between Scotland and England.

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The electricity transmitted on this superhighway will be generated by wind farms in the North Sea.

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