The winning bidder will own and operate the link for the next 20 years.
Ofgem E-Serve’s Managing Director, Robert Hull said:”The strong interest in competing for the West of Duddon Sands transmission assets is further proof that the offshore regime is successfully encouraging investment, attracting new players and ensuring competition in the offshore transmission sector.”
The longlist of bidders that have qualified to proceed to the Qualification to Tender stage are:
Balfour Beatty Equitix Consortium (a bidder group comprising Balfour Beatty Investment Ltd and Equitix Ltd)
Blue Transmission (a bidder group comprising Macquarie Capital Group Ltd, Barclays Infrastructure Funds Management Ltd, Mitsubishi Corporation and Frontier Power Ltd)
John Laing Investments Ltd
National Grid Offshore Ltd
Skanska (a bidder group comprising Skanska Construction UK Ltd and Skanska Infrastructure Investment UK Ltd)
Transmission Capital Partners (a bidder group comprising Transmission Capital Partners Limited Partnership and International Public Partnerships Ltd)