SSEN Transmission has submitted a planning application for the Greens 400 kV substation project, near New Deer, to Aberdeenshire Council.
The project is a key part of the transmission operator’s proposed Beauly to Peterhead 400 kV overhead line (OHL) link. It will help deliver high voltage, clean renewable power for connection to homes and businesses across the UK, helping to meet Scotland’s and the UK’s net zero and energy security ambitions.
The project will involve the construction of a new outdoor 400 kV Air Insulated Switchgear (AIS) substation located east of Turriff and south of Cuminestown to connect to the Beauly to Peterhead 400 kV OHL, and to the existing New Deer substation by underground cable.
The substation site was finalized taking into account an environmental and technical perspective, including access roads and its connection to existing and proposed OHL infrastructure.
A series of pre-application consultation events such as landscaping and screening measures to reduce visual impact, a detailed construction traffic plan aimed at minimizing impact on the local road network, and biodiversity net gain proposals, offered the public the opportunity to help outline the proposals for substations.
