SSE to invest £33bn in upgrading Scotland’s electricity grid

The company that controls the electricity grid in the north of Scotland has announced plans to invest £33bn over five years.

SSE plans to spend two-thirds of that to upgrade cables and increase the high voltage grid to get power from the north to customers in the south.

However, the Perth-based company has faced strong criticism of some of its plans, for the impact they will have on the Highlands and Rural Aberdeenshire.

Among the plans are the construction of high pylons and the construction of several sub-stations.

The other third of the new investment plan is partly for lower-voltage wiring in the two areas where the company has the distribution franchise and monopoly – the north of Scotland and central southern England, where it took over Southern Electric 27 years ago.

That will take £5bn of the Investment Plan up to 2030, some of it to improve the capacity of homes to run water to heat the air.

The company has put a reduced portion of its investment effort into offshore wind power, although it remains a major developer in the North Sea.

SSE is building the bank’s Dogger farm, which is the largest in the world, and it has permission to build Berwick Bank in Scotland, which will be the largest in the world when it is completed.

Martin Pibworth, the company’s new chief executive is confident that the plan is “focused, disciplined and comprehensively funded”.

This funding process began with a successful placement, on Tuesday morning, with £2bn-worth of new SSE shares, taken by existing investors. Unusually for a commodity, its price rose 16% at its peak, before ending the day 11%.

Other funding comes through the company’s income from its current assets, and from debt.

Mr PIBworth, Who took over from Alistair Phillsips-Davies as Chief Executive of SSE three months ago, is also confident that he has enough skills to get the job done.

The Transfer Networks Division has expanded staff by five to 2,500 by moving people within SSE, while recruiting apprentices, graduates and sought after oil and gas industry players.

More broadly, SSE directly employs 7,000 people in Scotland, and over 10,000 indirectly, while totaling around 49,000 across the UK.

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Community councils from across the Highlands have come together to raise their concerns.

The Highland Council has recently published a strongly criticized criticism of one of the most contented power lines, which surrounds the north of East Sutherland and Christmas in East Sutherland and Christmas in East Sutherland and Christmas in East Sutherland and Christmas in East Sutherland and Christmas in Central Highland Village.

That is the current meeting point for four major lines, and would require an additional, very large sub-station.

Although local and planning authorities are responsible for land along the entire route of the line, the project will go to the Scottish government for Scottish approval for Scottish approval.

Mr Pibworth told Balbet News: “We are committed to the broadest, most comprehensive consultation ever undertaken in the north of Scotland.

“We have given 250-plus meetings to communities, to make sure they understand the plan.

“Scotland’s renewal needs to be done. We need to get changes (energy) flowing to the centers of need.

“We need to ensure that we have an energy system that is reliable, that is not exposed to international markets and geopolitics by fixing the price of gas, with secure jobs in our local communities.

“Those plans are coming together now,” the chief executive said.

“We’re listening to councils and communities, and trying to work with them, to make sure we can use it where it can.

“But these networks need to be built, for the good of the economy and for the green jobs and for the good of prosperity as we lag behind in our economy.”

He believes there is a growing political debate about the ability to transfer green power, but answered:

“It’s clean. It’s green. I’m absolutely confident we’re on the right track.”

He also praised the UK and Scottish governments for their role in supporting further energy development, saying the UK has become the best market for such investment, where other countries have shied away from their ambitions.

SSE recently announced that it has a target for building 1,000 new homes Because accommodation cannot be found for the workers who need to install the new infrastructure.

After the work is done, the houses will be handed over for sale as affordable houses or for social housing.

Its investment plan was welcomed by Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s questions in the House of Commons.