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The facility will work closely with Doble’s main offices in Marlborough, MA, mostly focusing on hardware and software research and development.

ScottishPower has delivered a £1 billion boost for the energy supply chain and over £1.1 billion in investments in the first six months of 2024.

SP Energy Networks’ first live network deployment of smart transformers will happen at a substation in Wrexham.

SSEN Transmission has identified an alternative site on Lewis for its new HVDC convertor station and AC substation for the Western Isles HVDC link.

BRUSH Group has opened a multi-million-pound transformer test cell facility at its transformer manufacturing facility in Loughborough.

Ocean Winds has achieved first power at the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm.

Balfour Beatty has been awarded a contract to construct three substations in Argyll, Scotland, on behalf of SSEN Transmission.

The transformer forms part of a high voltage electricity network upgrade in the area.

The acquisition expands the firm’s portfolio of services to include mechanical and electrical consulting engineering, BIM (Building Information Modelling), building physics, Passivhaus design and low carbon consulting.

Construction of the project began in the autumn of 2020, and the last turbine was installed August 2023.

The North Planning Applications Committee approved the project’s onshore application for planning permission in principle.

The Hylton Castle substation will provide a new grid connection for Nissan, AESC UK and Sunderland City Council’s EV36Zero electric vehicle hub at the site.

The company will supply nine transformers with capacities of 275 to 400 kV to five substations operated by National Grid by October 2027.

The transformer is classified as an abnormal indivisible load and needs to be delivered on a specialist vehicle under police escort and at low speed.

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The funds will “unlock economic growth and enable the increasingly digital, electrified and decarbonised economies of the future” and support 55000 more jobs.

SSEN Transmission has announced it has selected Sumitomo Electric Industries and its subsea cable installation partner, Van Oord Offshore Wind UK as preferred bidder for Shetland 2.

The work enables the interconnector to be brought back to optimal conditions.

The line will connect the UK and the Netherlands with offshore wind farms, providing clean energy, and help reduce household bills.

The substation is one of five to be built as part of SSEN Transmission’s Argyll and Kintyre 275 kV Reinforcement Project.

The location was chosen for its proximity to key clients and partners and connections to employees.

National Grid is working with Smart Wires on an innovation project to make better use of grid enhancing technologies such as advanced power flow controllers.

The Partnership forms part of a £9 billion supply chain framework which will also support infrastructure projects beyond 2030.

The aim of the Project is to address electricity demand in the UK, expected to double from 300 to 600 TWh by 2050.