# Balfour Beatty awarded £214M Hinkley Point C overhead line contract

Balfour Beatty was awarded a £214 million contract by National Grid to design, supply, install, test and commission a 48.4 km overhead line connecting Hinkley Point C to the grid.

- Type: Contract
- Announced: 2019-01-29
- Where: Somerset and Avonmouth, Bristol, UK, United Kingdom
- Value: $280.0M (214.0M GBP)
- Jobs: 150
- Status: announced
- Products: 400kV overhead line, T-Pylon design
- Sectors: [Power Generation Equipment](https://endata.com/sectors/power-generation-equipment.md)

## Companies

- [Balfour Beatty](https://endata.com/companies/13673.md)
- [National Grid](https://endata.com/companies/389.md) (customer)

## Sources

- [balfourbeatty.com](https://www.balfourbeatty.com/media-centre/latest/balfour-beatty-awarded-214-million-hinkley-point-c-overhead-line-contract-for-national-grid/), 2019-01-29: "Our extensive knowledge and unique capability in delivering major complex Overhead Line schemes, makes us ideally positioned to play a key role in helping to deliver the first nuclear power station to be built in the UK for more than 20 years."

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