Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks is inviting stakeholders to attend on online event on Tuesday 9 March to discuss its Heat Strategy, which sets out the key principles and actions the network operator is taking to secure a fair transition to decarbonised heat...
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has secured 348MW of flexible energy service contracts across five sites in Scotland and two in central and southern England, enough to power approximately 91,000 homes, supporting electricity system security in a cost-effective and smart manner.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks is trialling innovative technology across central southern England to ‘predict’ and prevent power cuts, using Distribution Fault Anticipation systems work to identify network faults before they interrupt customers’ power supplies...
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has now installed over 80 low-voltage monitors throughout Oxfordshire. The monitors will alert SSEN to changing levels of demand in real time and assist in targeting investment on the road to net zero.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has published two new reports, forecasting the impact of a net zero future in the north of Scotland and central southern England. In SSEN’s distribution area alone the reports project that the number of electric vehicles (EVs) will increase from 30,000 today to over 5 million, and heat pumps from 32,000 to over 2.47 million.
Matthew Mclauchlin, from SSEN’s North Distribution Control Centre, blogs about how automated technology on our network is helping us improve the service we provide our customers.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has called on its customers to register their interest in providing 250MWs of “flexibility” to the energy system over the next eight years. Owners of low-carbon technologies, generators and solutions that can absorb demand can earn money, support network security, and the transition to net zero in a cost-effective manner...
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) is trialling 'Smart Hammer' a tool which provides quick and accurate assessments of the health of critical network infrastructure. The £498,200 trial will take a place across its north and south networks over a 20-month period to explore how this innovation could deliver a new cost-effective approach to network maintenance...
SSEN, as part of SSE plc, is a signatory of the Climate Group’s EV100 commitment to decarbonise its fleet of vehicles by 2030. Dame Cheryl Gillan MP for Chesham and Amersham has welcomed the leadership and called for other operators of large corporate fleets to follow suit...
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks’ (SSEN) has today published the findings from its project E-Tourism, revealing tourists’ electric vehicles (EVs) could cause a ten-fold increase in demand on the electricity network in some of Scotland’s most popular destinations...
