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What's new?
First power from UK’s Viking wind farm, and other new initiatives
19/06/2024
Shetland, some 170 km from the coast of Scotland, is gearing up to be fully connected to Great Britain’s electricity transmission grid for the first t...
ScottishPower to kickstart largest overhaul of UK grid
24/01/2024
With electricity demand forecast to double in the next 10 years, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says the UK needs more than 600,000 km of new o...
Planning consent for UK subsea electricity superhighway
06/09/2023
SSEN and NGET have received planning consents for all the onshore and offshore elements of the ambitious project by all three local planning authoriti...
UK’s largest electricity transmission project agreed
12/07/2023
The ‘Eastern Green Link 2’ (EGL2) project will be the UK’s single largest electricity transmission project, comprising a 525 kW, 2 GW high voltage dir...
Wind power first for Britain
17/05/2023
Almost a third (32.4%) of Britain’s electricity was supplied from wind power during the first quarter of 2023, outpacing gas which delivered 31.7%. It...
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