SPEN is one of the principle organisations involved in the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Electricity Networks Strategy Group (ENSG) work on the 2020 vision for the transmission network. This work has set the footprint for the transmission system in GB to facilitate the delivery of renewable energy in Scotland in excess of 10GW by 2020. An essential deliverable of this work is the HVDC link between SPEN and NG. It is proposed for this link to be operational by 2016 to facilitate the flow of the expected renewable energy from Scotland to England. This is the first off many proposed DC links in the UK to deliver the 2020 vision.