A NEW overhead line running for over 100 miles across some of the Highlands and Aberdeenshire’s most picturesque areas is being planned in a bid to enable “significant” growth of renewable energy and support transition away from fossil fuels.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks Transmission, which owns, operates and develops the high voltage electricity transmission system in the north of Scotland and islands has unveiled the strategy which it says is a “critical project of national significance” as it has been identified as “essential” to deliver government targets for offshore wind.
The proposed project will involve building a new 400kV overhead line
connection – or energy motorway – between Beauly, Blackhillock, New Deer
and Peterhead to enable the transmission of renewable power into the
network for onward transmission to “areas of demand further south”.

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