Winners revealed for £5.4bn electricity grid upgrade

The deal consists of as much as £3bn on new overhead traces and £2.4bn on new and upgraded substations, together with design, engineering, development, and electrical works.

Nineteen winners have been introduced for the strategic partnership which can run for an preliminary 5 years with the choice to increase as much as 10.

Nicola Connelly, CEO of SP Power Networks, stated: “We’re delivering the most important overhaul of the electrical energy grid ever seen to unlock progress and unlock community capability for brand new houses, companies and clear vitality tasks.

“These strategic partnerships will give suppliers the boldness to put money into themselves, rising their workforce, opening new workplaces throughout the nation and creating even larger alternatives for the UK

“That is nice information for the UK and Scottish provide chains, with each pound spent immediately benefiting central southern Scotland and its infrastructure for many years to come back.”

SP Power Networks, a part of ScottishPower, owns and operates the transmission community for central and southern Scotland with greater than 4,500km of overhead electrical energy traces, 600 km of underground cables and over 150 substations to move excessive voltage energy throughout the area.

It additionally operates undersea excessive voltage cables and final week was given the go-ahead to progress with a brand new underwater superhighway off the east coast of Britain.

In September ScottishPower confirmed it was doubling its funding within the UK to 2028, from £12bn to £24bn, with two thirds targeted on electrical energy networks.

The successful companies are:

Most popular companions to the Strategic Settlement for Transmission Overhead Line Works:

• Balfour Beatty Utility Options.
• Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios.
• Keltbray Power.
• Morgan Sindall Building & Infrastructure.
• Morrison Power Companies (Transmission Networks).
• Painhas.
• Energy Traces, Pipes and Cables.
• Wooden Transmission And Distribution.

Most popular companions to the Strategic Settlement for Substation Works:

• Adman Civil Tasks.
• Amalgamated Building.
• George Leslie.
• I&H Brown.
• Keltbray Power.
• Kirby Group Engineering (UK).
• Linxon UK.
• Luddon Building.
• Morgan Sindall Building & Infrastructure.
• Morrison Power Companies (Transmission Networks).
• Northstone (NI).
• Painhas.
• R.J. McLeod (Contractors).
• Siemens Power.
• UK Grid Options.