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| 28TH SEPTEMBER - 4TH OCTOBER 2018 | UTILITY WEEK
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Scottish and Southern Electricity Net-
works (SSEN) and Balfour Beatty have
successfully energised the connection
for Dorenell Wind Farm in Moray,
which will add capacity for a further
220MW of renewable energy to the GB
transmission system.
SSEN had to overcome various chal-
lenges to meet the grid connection date
required for its generation customer,
EDF Renewables. These began with
local opposition to the use of conven-
tional steel towers due to the cumula-
tive impact in the local area. To further
complicate matters, local landowners
opposed the alterative conventional
infrastructure of twin trident overhead
wooden poles, due to the footprint this
would have on their land.
To overcome these challenges,
SSEN and Balfour Beatty developed
an innovative solution whereby com-
posite polymer poles were deployed to
provide the grid connection – the first
Pole position
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