Scottish and Southern Energy – the Perth-based utility giant – has told MPs that there will be no connections to the UK grid from Scotland’s ‘energy isles’ until 2020 at the earliest. Andrew Huthwaite, the transmission development director at SSE – which builds and maintains Grid infrastructure in the Highlands and Islands – said it ‘depended on getting regulatory approval’ He was giving evidence yesterday in Edinburgh to MPs on the House of Commons’ Committee on Scottish Affairs – which is currently carrying out an investigation into the electricity and renewable energy industries in Scotland. Huthwaite said: “The earliest we are feasibly looking at for mainland UK Grid connections is by December 2020 for the Western Isles, by March 2021 for Shetland and by 2022 for Orkney.”
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