This is SSE’s 100th embedded electricity network outside the areas served by its regulated subsidiaries Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution and Southern Electric Power Distribution.
Through its Utility Solutions business, SSE designs, builds, owns, operates and maintains networks delivering electricity, gas, water, heat and telecommunications to existing, and new commercial and residential developments in England, Wales and Scotland.
The contract for the recent electricity network is in respect of Nissan/Turbine Business Park. Nissan is investing more than £200m in building an electric car battery factory at its plant in Sunderland.
SSE’s first embedded network in London Docklands was commissioned in 1999, and the company now owns and operates 69 energized electricity networks outside its regulated distribution areas.
A further 20 networks are under construction and contracts have been signed for the development of an additional 11, taking the total to 100.
In total, SSE has almost 600MW of network capacity, including 420MW energized/under construction, plus contracts to develop another 175MW.
