It has been hailed as a ‘major milestone’ in the road to a Clean Energy system in the UK.
For the first time, power has flowed from Shetland to the mainland, in what is expected to be the most productive onshore windfarm in the UK has been completed.
The Viking project has been more than two decades in the making.
It comes on the same day that the UK Government announced it will not challenge judicial reviews brought against developments for the Rosebank and Jackdaw offshore oil and gas fields in the North Sea.
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