Hitachi Energy

SSEN Transmission has marked the official groundbreaking of its Lewis Hub project, celebrating a significant step towards delivering the Western Isles’ first direct electricity transmission connection to mainland Great Britain. The event brought together project partners, elected representativ

SSEN Transmission has awarded global energy technology leader Hitachi Energy major contracts to deliver high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converter stations at each end of two new subsea cable links: one, already consented, linking Spittal in Caithness and Peterhead in Aberdeenshire; and the other

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.

Four contractors have been appointed by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) for the construction of a 600MW subsea electricity transmission link from Shetland to mainland Scotland.