Sounds good, but I was hoping it was going to say that they were building BIG batteries into all the homes so that they could help address curtailment and make the occupants' lives a bit cheaper...Subsidiary of electricity firm SSE signs ‘unique and novel’ employment and social housing deal with local councils
More than 1,000 new homes are expected to be built across northern Scotland linked to a £20bn investment in grid infrastructure needed to meet the UK’s green energy targets.
SSEN Transmission, a subsidiary of the electricity firm SSE, has signed a deal with local councils and housing associations in the Highlands to fund at least 1,000 new properties as well as the refurbishment of existing, unoccupied ones.
The proposal, described by the industry body RenewableUK as “unique and novel”, follows mounting anger in rural areas about the modest financial benefits many communities that host windfarms, overhead lines and electricity substations receive from those projects.
The company, which has a monopoly on building and maintaining the electricity grid in northern Scotland, plans to spend £20bn by 2030 to channel power from new offshore and onshore windfarms to be built as part of the UK government’s efforts to decarbonise the electricity supply.
It expects to employ thousands of workers across the Highlands, the Outer Hebrides and Orkney and Shetland – areas suffering from depopulation driven by an affordable housing crisis. That will peak at a workforce of nearly 5,000 people in 2027 and a significant number of those will need new homes.
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I guess it might be in there somewhere, if not it's an opportunity missed/maybe written off as "too difficult!"