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Transgrid has welcomed the NSW Government’s final environmental approval for the eastern section of the nation’s biggest transmission project EnergyConnect, as works in the western section accelerate.

EnergyConnect will invest millions of dollars with local suppliers and is currently awarding local procurement packages along its alignment in NSW from Wentworth to Wagga Wagga following the start of construction on the $1.8 billion interconnector.

A range of initiatives will be implemented to reduce the carbon footprint by 20 per cent across the 700km footprint of the nation’s largest energy infrastructure project EnergyConnect.

More than 9000 kilometres of conductor cabling, enough to span from Sydney to Perth three times, will be used to deliver Australia’s largest electricity grid project, EnergyConnect.

Preliminary works are underway to build workers’ camps and numerous studies are being undertaken now to prepare for the start of construction on Transgrid’s once-in-a-generation transmission project EnergyConnect.

More than 820 individual businesses have registered to become prequalified for work on Transgrid’s EnergyConnect project, a critical electricity transmission infrastructure which will save NSW energy customers $180 million a year and generate up to 1,500 new jobs.