Ssen Transmission

Balfour Beatty has been awarded a contract by Prysmian to install 68 kilometres of high voltage direct current (HVDC) land cables from Fraisthorpe Sands to Drax in North Yorkshire as well as an additional 1 kilometre of HVDC land cable at Peterhead.

SSEN Transmission has unveiled plans to deliver at least £22 billion in mission-critical grid infrastructure, supporting up to 17,500 jobs in Scotland and adding up to £7bn of value to the Scottish economy.

A local firm in the north-east of Scotland has been awarded a multi-million-pound contract to help deliver a new HVDC converter station required as part of Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2), the UK’s largest ever electricity transmission project.

A planning application for a crucial component of SSEN Transmission’s £20 billion ‘Pathway to 2030’ investment programme in the north of Scotland has been submitted to Aberdeenshire Council.

For the first time since the modernisation of the electricity network, horses are being used to extract timber on SSEN Transmission projects. It may be the image of a bygone era, but there is still very much a place for horse logging - the extraction of timber - from Scotland’s forests.

SSEN Transmission has pledged to support the delivery of more than 1,000 new homes across the north of Scotland by 2030 with a landmark new strategy.

Balfour Beatty has been awarded a contract to construct three new substations in Argyll, on behalf of SSEN Transmission. The contract has been awarded through the GIS2 RIIO T2 framework, to which the company was appointed in 2022.

SSEN Transmission has today awarded the first phase of the c. £690 million Skye 132kV reinforcement project to Balfour Beatty. On completion, the project will ensure the supply of secure, clean electricity to thousands of homes and businesses across the Hebrides and West Highlands.

SSEN Transmission has selected Sumitomo Electric Industries and its subsea cable installation partner, Van Oord Offshore Wind UK, (the Sumitomo Electric Van Oord Consortium) as the preferred bidder for the proposed Shetland 2 High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) link subsea cable. The need for a

Balfour Beatty has begun work with SSEN Transmission on the development of nine Electricity Transmission projects across the north of Scotland. The work forms part of SSEN Transmission’s ‘Pathway to 2030’ network redevelopment programme, to which Balfour Beatty was appointed in Aug

Highlands-based Global Infrastructure (Scotland) Ltd. has broken ground at Claverhouse East Industrial Estate in Dundee on a new multi-million-pound strategic storage facility for SSEN Transmission. The 7,500m2 facility - and an identical unit under construction in the north at Inverness Airport Bus

After almost three years of construction, SSEN Transmission teams are celebrating after the new Alyth Substation has been energised, marking a major milestone in the final phases of the project.

Burns & McDonnell has been awarded an engineer-procure-construct (EPC) contract for the Errochty Grid Supply Point (GSP) project by SSEN Transmission. The development of the Errochty substation will see the installation of new transformers and will renew and modernise the transmission and distri

Burns & McDonnell is consolidating its expansion across the UK transmission market having been selected as a preferred bidder by SSEN Transmission to deliver onshore transmission infrastructure across Scotland. SSEN Transmission’s £10 billion framework will be pivotal to helping the

Civil engineering contractor Global Infrastructure (Scotland) Ltd. has been awarded a multi-million-pound contract by SSEN Transmission for the design and construction of two strategic storage facilities in Dundee and Inverness. The pair of 7500m2 warehouses at the Claverhouse East Industrial Estate