Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £47.5 million contract by SSEN Transmission to design and build a new 400 kV substation in Peterhead, Scotland, as part of the East Coast Reinforcement programme. Construction starts in late 2020 with completion scheduled for 2023.
NKT has been awarded a contract worth approximately €235 million by SSEN Transmission to deliver and install a high-voltage DC interconnector for the Shetland HVDC Link project. The order includes manufacturing and installation of 2x260 km of 320 kV HVDC power cables, with commissioning expected in 2024.
Siemens has received an order for the turnkey delivery of the grid connection for the 402-MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm from Statoil and Statkraft. The grid connection is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2016.