By 2030, the energy company hopes to bring in another 150 employees, adding to the 183 jobs it generated last year. 

The company also anticipated it would provide 12 new graduate roles, eight summer placements, an apprenticeship, and a trainee engineer role this year.

The company has also predicted it will hire 539 people in its Inverness office by 2030.

If predictions are met, this would be above the 349 employees it currently has. 

The £21.3 billion in spending – £8.4bn in Aberdeenshire and £12.8bn in the Highlands Council area – forms part of a £29bn investment in the north of Scotland’s new and upgraded electricity transmission infrastructure.

The company released the figures in ‘Re-energising the North: Transforming Scotland,’ its economic report.

The report said: “Over the past half-century the region has been central to Scotland’s oil and gas economy.

“Today, building on that proud energy legacy, Aberdeenshire is once again at a moment of transformation, positioned at the forefront of Scotland’s just transition, where its skills, infrastructure, and innovation are driving the shift to a more diverse, low carbon energy future.”

Supporting 100 jobs, the firm intends to invest £180 million in Aberdeen City.

Isla Dickie-Moir, trainee planning engineer at SSEN Transmission, felt positive about the firm’s move to widen its footprint in Aberdeenshire. Dickie-Moir said: “It’s great that these opportunities exist locally – you don’t have to travel far to be part of something like this. It’s especially exciting at this stage of my career to be involved in a strategic clean energy project of this scale and importance.”

At present, Dickie-Moir is supporting the Netherton Hub’s delivery, which is near Peterhead.