Companies agree to pay £158m redress package for delay to subsea cable project

A two-year delay made it difficult at times for generators in Scotland to export clean electricity to England and Wales, Ofgem said

New contracts for third phase of Dogger Bank windfarm confirmed

Agreements are about an offshore platform and transmission link for the third phase of the world’s largest offshore wind farm

Ofgem greenlights SSE’s 600MW Shetland power link

The regulator’s approval is conditional on the basis the 443MW Viking wind farm will go ahead by the end of 2020

SSEN resubmits plan for £709m Shetland power link

Ofgem rejected the proposal last October after SSEN failed to secure a Contract for Difference in the government’s auction for the Viking Energy Wind Farm

Ofgem rejects SSEN’s £709m Shetland power link

The approval was based on the Viking Energy Wind Farm securing subsidies through the UK Government’s Contracts for Difference auction last month

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Ofgem gives green light for £260m Orkney electricity transmission link

The approval for SSEN to develop the 220MW power link is subject to conditions

National Grid hits out at Ofgem over Hinkley proposals

National Grid has criticised Ofgem’s proposals over an £800 million project to connect the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to the grid. The Hinkley Seabank (HSB) transmission project is intended to allow for the safe connection of the planned nuclear plant to the electricity network. Ofgem said National Grid can build the infrastructure but […]

Ofgem announces shortlist to run wind power links

Ofgem has announced shortlists of bidders competing to own and operate new transmission links to UK wind farms. The bids have been narrowed down to six companies for three offshore transmission lines, which run from the mainland to the Dudgeon, Rampion and Race Bank wind farms off the coasts of Norfolk and Sussex. The companies hoping to […]

Operator of 219MW wind farm link revealed

The company that will own and operate the offshore transmission link to a 219MW wind farm has been revealed. Balfour Beatty Equitix Consortium, which includes Balfour Beatty Investments and Equitix Limited, was selected by Ofgem through a competitive process. The Humber Gateway offshore wind farm, located around eight kilometres off the coast of East Yorkshire, […]

Shortlist for offshore wind farms link revealed

Four sets of investors are through to a shortlist of bidders to build power links from land to two offshore wind farms. The Westermost Rough and Humber Gateway projects are in the North Sea off the coast of Yorkshire. There was “strong competition” to own and operate the £400 million worth of high voltage transmission […]