SSE, a leading energy company listed on the FTSE 100, has taken a significant step forward in the development of its flagship Irish offshore wind farm, Arklow Bank Wind Park 2, by submitting a planning consent application to Ireland’s An Bord Pleanála. This marks a pivotal milestone in the project’s progression, aiming to bolster Ireland’s […]
GE Vernova’s Gas Power business (NYSE: GE) has announced a key contract win to build a temporary generating capacity at SSE’s Tarbert site in County Kerry, Ireland. This initiative is set to provide an expected 150 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity, enhancing the region’s energy security. Strategic Addition to Ireland’s Power Network Powered by three […]
SSEN Transmission, an arm of energy company SSE, has received green light from the UK’s energy regulator Ofgem for the Orkney transmission link, a subsea electricity transmission connection to Orkney. The approval from Ofgem has cleared the way to connect Scotland’s final island group to the GB Transmission network. The Orkney transmission link is anticipated […]
NKT has bagged a contract worth around €235 million from SSEN Transmission for the supply and installation of a high-voltage direct current (DC) interconnector to the Shetland HVDC Link project. The Danish power cable manufacturer said that the turnkey order includes the manufacturing of nearly 2×260 km of 320 kV high-voltage DC on-and offshore power […]
Scottish energy company SSE has secured approval from the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) for the Shetland transmission link project, a 600MW HVDC transmission link that will connect Shetland to the UK mainland. The Shetland transmission project is being advanced by SSE’s transmission business – Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks Transmission (SSEN Transmission). […]