SSE

Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm powers up

SSEN launches local network planning tool

Ovo completes SSE migration four years after takeover

Ofgem releases £16m for network-led projects

Ofgem has awarded 36 network-led projects a combined £16 million through its Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF). The projects are broadly split into four categories: supporting a just energy transition, preparing for a net zero power system, improving energy system resilience and robustness and accelerating decarbonisation of major energy demands.

End of DNO incentives risks ‘sub-optimal’ customer service

A lack of financial incentives for distribution network operators (DNOs) to improve service risks creating a “postcode lottery” which could result in “sub-optimal customer outcomes”. That is according to Ofgem’s Stakeholder Engagement and Consumer Vulnerability (SECV) Incentives Panel, which has just published its final annual report. As the incentive scheme draws to a close, after eight years, the SECV Panel’s 2022-23 assessment warns that “stakeholder engagement is not truly embedded across all DNOs, and certainly not to the same standard”.

SSE launches support fund for struggling businesses

SSEN sees 140% increase in flexible capacity

England-Scotland electricity ‘superhighway’ gets go-ahead

Orsted pulls out of green hydrogen fund bid

Orsted has withdrawn from the first round of the government’s green hydrogen support programme. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has announced that 17 projects have been invited to negotiations to secure funding through the first allocation of its Net Zero Hydrogen Fund. Another three projects, which were shortlisted by DESNZ earlier this year and include Orsted's Gigastack project, have withdrawn from the process.

Councils face bumpy road to decarbonised transport

Ofgem set to approve £600m grid upgrade in Scotland

Overcoming barriers to low-carbon heat at a local level

Trio of smart metering projects win funding

Green light for SSEN’s £488m Skye power line upgrade

SSEN’s £488 million proposal to upgrade power lines between Fort Augustus and the Isle of Skye has been given the green light. Ofgem approved the plans after ruling that “there is sufficient evidence of a clear needs case for the Skye project on the basis that there is the need for asset intervention and that new generation has shown enough progress to warrant adding additional capacity to the Skye circuit”. The plans include replacing the existing single 132kV overhead line (OHL) which spans across 160km between Fort Augustus on the mainland to Ardmore on the Isle of Skye.

Ofgem criticised for handling of SSE investigation