Eastern Green Link 2 using low carbon fuel for material handling trucks
London, April 09, 2025, (Oilandgaspress) –––Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) is the UK’s single largest electricity transmission project, providing enough electricity to power two million homes. The project is accelerating its sustainability efforts by adopting Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (HVO) fuel for material handling trucks in Yorkshire.
HVO, a low-carbon biofuel made from waste vegetable oils, will be used at the Wren Hall converter station site in North Yorkshire, where 20-tonne construction trucks will transport approximately 370,000 tonnes of quarry stone from a quarry 27 miles away. This switch from conventional diesel to HVO is expected to deliver up to a 90% reduction in direct CO2 emissions and an 80% reduction in other harmful emissions such as particulate matter.
EGL2, which features a 436km high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea transmission cable connecting Scotland and England, is being delivered as a joint venture by National Grid Electricity Transmission and SSEN Transmission. BAM and Hitachi Energy are collaborating to provide the engineering works and technology for the HVDC converter stations. These stations are vital for converting direct current to alternating current used in the onshore electricity transmission network.
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