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Net Zero Acceleration Programme Company news 20 Sep 2023

SSE responds to UK PM’s Net Zero Speech

Responding to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s speech on the UK’s Net Zero policies

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  • Offshore wind can power a UK industrial renaissance – but we are at a crossroads

    Offshore wind has been the UK’s greatest technology success story in the last decade: an industry where the country has developed genuine global leadership. But having made a great start, the challenge is how the UK maintains momentum.

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  • SSE Renewables secures 0.6GW of new UK onshore wind contracts

    SSE Renewables is pleased to announce it has today been successful in the UK’s fifth Contract for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round and is set to be awarded 15-year contracts for low carbon power for over half a gigawatt of new onshore wind generation.

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  • UK Government backs two SSE projects in Net Zero Hydrogen Fund

    A pair of green hydrogen projects being developed by SSE have been selected by UK Government to progress to the final stage of its Net Zero Hydrogen Fund.

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Company news 20 Sep 2023
SSE responds to UK PM’s Net Zero Speech

Responding to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s speech on the UK’s Net Zero policies

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Company news 03 Aug 2023

First campaign underway to install turbines at world’s largest offshore wind farm

UK’s Dogger Bank will deliver clean energy to six million British homes annually

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Net Zero Acceleration Programme 20 Sep 2023
SSE responds to UK PM’s Net Zero Speech

Responding to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s speech on the UK’s Net Zero policies

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Net Zero Acceleration Programme 11 Aug 2023
Landmark for Lenalea onshore wind farm as final turbine installed

Lenalea Wind Farm has reached a landmark milestone in its construction with the successful installation of its seventh and final turbine at the site in County Donegal.

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Net Zero Acceleration Programme 24 Jul 2023
Viking Wind Farm spends more than £70 million with supply chain

Viking Wind Farm has spent more than £70 million so far since work on the project commenced in 2020.

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Renewables

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Renewables 11 Sep 2023
Offshore wind can power a UK industrial renaissance – but we are at a crossroads

Offshore wind has been the UK’s greatest technology success story in the last decade: an industry where the country has developed genuine global leadership. But having made a great start, the challenge is how the UK maintains momentum.

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Renewables 08 Sep 2023

SSE Renewables secures 0.6GW of new UK onshore wind contracts

SSE Renewables is pleased to announce it has today been successful in the UK’s fifth Contract for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round and is set to be awarded 15-year contracts for low carbon power for over half a gigawatt of new onshore wind generation.

Sustainability

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Sustainability 22 Dec 2022
SSE recognised with ‘A’ score for transparency on climate change

SSE has been recognised for leadership in corporate transparency and performance on climate change by global environmental non-profit CDP, securing a place on its annual ‘A List’.

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Sustainability 07 Dec 2022
SSE responds to 2022 CCC Progress Report

The CCC report clearly underlines the need for businesses, government and the regulator to urgently move from ambition to action, and SSE stands ready to play its part by investing £15bn in Scotland in the next decade...

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Sustainability 14 Apr 2022
SSE’s Peterhead site hosts Just Transition Commission

Scotland’s Just Transition Commission has visited Peterhead Power Station to see how plans for a new low-carbon plant would deliver significant benefits to workers and communities in the north-east of Scotland.

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Electricity Networks

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Electricity networks 21 Jul 2023

Major milestones in delivery of key contracts for 2030 Scottish electricity transmission network plans

SSEN Transmission ihas announced that it has selected Hitachi Energy as ‘preferred bidder’ for the HVDC Converter System and NKT as ‘preferred bidder’ for the High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Cable for its Western Isles and Spittal-Peterhead subsea links.

Electricity networks 27 Jun 2023
SSEN Transmission to consult on first of a kind community fund

SSEN Transmission has set out plans for its first ever community benefit scheme, which will see the company working with communities across the north of Scotland to channel funds into vital local projects.

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