During the ScottishPower ( SPR) Development Consent Order ( DCO) Examinations in 2020/21, our local campaign group Suffolk Energy Action Solutions ( SEAS) challenged ScottishPower on a number of issues relating to the cable trench route. One of our particular concerns...
Month: October 2024
Starmer Stamps on Regulators – Reassures his New Friends Iberdrola and Big Business
On 13 October, Starmer singled out just one project in his rallying speech to global investors. It was ScottishPower’s EA2, costing £4billion, generating 1GW clean energy and delayed by regulation (4,000 documents ) and two years of judicial reviews. A view...
National Grid Awarded £870k to Explore New Offshore Solutions
SEAS welcomes the news that National Grid has been awarded these monies to explore the benefits of superconducting cables and offshore islands/ platforms. Offshore grid technology advances are being taken up by North Sea countries who have been pioneering their own...
Open Letter to Chris Stark and Fintan Slye
Offshore4sure has written an open letter 'The faster, more cost-efficient way to Net Zero', to Chris Stark who is heading up the Government's Mission Control 2030 and Fintan Slye CEO of the new NESO (National Energy System Operator). We outline how a meshed offshore...
SEAS Response to Ofgem Consultation
SEAS recently responded to Ofgem's Regional Energy Strategic Plan policy framework consultation. We stressed the importance of spatial energy strategy planning and that it should be based on key design principles. 1. Refurbish/upgrade onshore infrastructure to...