National Grid has announced that its work to lay underground cables through the Mendip Hills in Somerset as part of the connection of the Hinkley Point C nuclear plant to the transmission network is now 60 per cent complete. The 400,000-volt cables are being installed along an 8.5-kilometre route from Loxton in the south to Sandford in the north to avoid the use of overhead power lines in the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Underground cable pull for Hinkley reaches 60% completion
