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Tender launched for £2.55m legal advice on electricity project

A procurement exercise has begun for legal advice worth £2.55m on a proposed subsea electricity interconnector to connect the UK and Germany.

NeuConnect, the company behind the scheme, has structured the tender into several lots:

  1. Regulation, Competition and Energy advice
  2. Commercial and Offshore/Onshore construction advice
  3. Property, planning and consents advice
  4. Project structuring, financing and investment advice

The contract for legal advice is expected to begin on 1 May 2017 and run until 30 April 2025.

The anticipated capacity of NeuConnect is 1.4GW and it will have a total cable length of some 650km.

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