#UK

Civil engineering firm Jones Bros has handed over the substation it built for the 240 MW Morlais tidal energy project on the Welsh island of Anglesey.

SSE Renewables has warned further delays to turbine installation at the 1.2 GW Dogger Bank A wind farm off east England may push back full operations to 2025.

Two large supergrid transformer deliveries will be made to the new Biggleswade substation on 11 and 18 February 2024.

UK, Wales: National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) is planning to build a new 400 kV substation in Wales.

Thistle Wind Partners (TWP) has submitted the onshore scoping report for its 1GW floating Ayre Offshore Wind Farm to The Highland Council in Scotland.

The AfDB and the UK have announced selected the Kenya’s Transmission Network Improvement Project as a beneficiary project under the Room to Run Sovereign transaction (R2RS).

National Grid has launched a consultation on a proposed 140 km long overhead power line linking Grimsby West to Walpole, Norfolk.

ScottishPower has unveiled £5.4 billion worth of contract opportunities as it turbo charges its next phase of electricity network investment.

Enabling work has started on the proposed Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) converter station that is due to be built on a site south of Peterhead, near Boddam.

SSEN Transmission has completed the construction of the new Dalchork Substation and overhead line between Lairg and Loch Buidhe.

The world’s longest land and subsea interconnector started commercial operations on 29th December 2023.

Richborough Energy Park battery is now connected and energised on the electricity transmission network.

Planning consent has been given for EDF Renewables UK’s Tye Lane Solar Farm in Suffolk.

Boskalis’ Bokalift1 has installed the first offshore substation platform at Ocean Winds’ 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm.

SP Energy Networks has “futureproofed” the electricity network in northwest England and North Wales.

National Grid has accelerated engineering works to address a bottleneck in connecting low carbon projects to the electricity network in southwest England and Wales.

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service said the fire started early on Wednesday morning.

UK: EGL1 will see the creation of a 525 kV, 2 GW HVDC subsea transmission cable from Torness in East Lothian, Scotland to Hawthorn Pit in County Durham, England.

National Grid is refurbishing 170 km of overhead power line between Lincolnshire and Hertfordshire, among other projects, as part of its £1 billion annual infrastructure investment.

The assembly and fit-out of the offshore substation platform and jacket foundation for the 1100 MW Inch Cape Offshore Wind has kicked off at the Smulders yard in Wallsend, Newcastle.

Plans for a new 100 km subsea electricity link between Orkney and the Scottish mainland have progressed after a high voltage cables supplier was chosen for the project.

National Grid is accelerating the connection of up to 20GW of clean energy projects to its electricity transmission and distribution networks in England and Wales.

SSEN Transmission chose Burns & McDonnell as the preferred bidder to deliver onshore transmission infrastructure across Scotland.

Ofgem has officially approved the Argyll and Kintyre electricity network upgrades.

A battery storage facility which will hold enough electricity to power more than 100,000 homes for two hours has officially gone live in Sandwell.

SP Energy Networks is investing around £24m in its electricity transmission network across its service area in Scotland to prepare for increased uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps.

SSEN Transmission has energized the new Abernethy Substation extension which will facilitate the connection of up to 50 MW of renewable energy.

Fire crews in Cornwall were called out on Tuesday night after a tractor collided with a high voltage electricity transformer.