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Craig Paton

UK’s first plant to build subsea cables opens in Highlands

The factory was opened on Monday (Sumitomo/PA) -

The UK’s first subsea cable plant in the Scottish Highlands intended to “tackle bottlenecks” in the transmission of electricity has opened.

The factory in the Port of Nigg, near Inverness, was built by Japanese firm Sumitomo to build cables which can carry electricity from wind farms.

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