Works to upgrade the electricity infrastructure and power supplies for thousands of customers on the Isle of Wight have been completed by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN), on time and to budget.
Taking just one month to complete, the £66,000 improvement project has seen the replacement of isolators and associated equipment at SSEN’s substation serving the village of Binstead; benefitting some 3,200 local homes and businesses by boosting the resilience of their power supplies.
These latest upgrade works to the island’s infrastructure are strengthening power supplies to deal with adverse weather conditions throughout the year and, in turn, helping customers on the island who are looking to achieve their net zero goals by changing to low carbon technologies, such as electric vehicles, solar panels and heat pumps.
SSEN Project Manager, Katherine Foley said:
“My team and I are delighted to have delivered this infrastructure upgrade for our customers on the Isle of Wight; building them a stronger, more reliable network that suits their needs now and for many years to come.
“By replacing existing equipment with more modern, efficient kit, we are ensuring that local homes and businesses have a robust network they can rely on, regardless of the weather conditions.
“As a considerate constructor, we carried out this programme of works with minimal disruption to those living and working nearby, and with no interruption to their power supplies.”
Katherine continued:
“This project may be one of the smaller works we have recently completed on the island, but it is hugely important to the thousands of customers we have in the Binstead area and we’d like to thank them for their patience while we carried out this improvement project.”
By upgrading critical areas of the network on the Isle of Wight, SSEN is also helping the island’s communities to achieve their decarbonisation ambitions through a power supply and infrastructure that's fit for purpose and fit for the future.
With an estimated uptake of 23,570 charge points on the Isle of Wight by 2030 and the addition of over 11,600 heat pumps and nearly 3,750 solar panels, SSEN is working to develop and build power supplies that suit the needs of residents and businesses now and in the years ahead.
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