Plans for connecting Moorside to National Grid unveiled

Plans for how the proposed Moorside Power Station would be connected to the National Grid were unveiled today.

The new station would be sited near Sellafield and would provide electricity for six million homes.

This is approximately 7% of the UK population.

National Grid say it would be the biggest change to the infrastructure of the network since it was first installed.

The route revealed today would connect Moorside to an existing substation near Carlisle in the north.

But it would then move along a new path that essentially mirrors the A595, before travelling along a tunnel under Morecambe Bay

It would then connect again with an existing substation at Heysham in Lancashire.

The project will take more than a decade to complete and will run to hundreds of millions of pounds.