Today we gave planning permission at a meeting of Aberdeenshire Council for a key part of a new electricity cable connection between Peterhead and Norway.

The building will be the size of two football pitches. It will convert electricity from DC to AC. This is part on an EU project for a super grid. When we have too much electricity from wind turbines it will transfer power to Norway to pump water uphill into reservoirs. That water will power hydro electric schemes to give us electricity when the wind doesn’t blow here. The building will use local red granite and glass with a curved grass roof. A similar scheme will run from Blyth in Northumberland.

It should result in cheaper electricity, they say. But we heard that before with nuclear power! That aside, it is good news. Less carbon produced and more renewable energy.