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Six Affordable Homes Open in Tomatin After 8 Years of Community-Led Effort

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Families, pupils and partners gather to celebrate a community’s determination to support solutions to The Highland housing Challenge. Six new community-owned affordable homes have opened in Tomatin, marking the culmination of an eight -year effort to tackle rural housing pressure in the Highlands. Viaduct View, a development of six energy‑efficient homes available to rent at […]

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Highland Communities Benefit from £2.1 Million SSE Funding

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Latest awards announced from SSE Renewables’ Highland Sustainable Development Fund SSE has awarded £2.1 million to 17 projects across the Scottish Highlands through its Highland Sustainable Development Fund. Backed by the company’s onshore wind farms, the Fund provides support to community and charitable initiatives across the region, with funding decisions made by an independent expert

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SSEN Transmission confirms intention to submit consent application for Spittal – Loch Buidhe – Beauly 400kV overhead line project 

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SSEN Transmission, the Perth-headquartered electricity transmission network owner for the north of Scotland, has today started the process of notifying key stakeholders of its intention to submit its Section 37 overhead line consent application for the proposed Spittal – Loch Buidhe – Beauly 400kV overhead line project within the next two weeks. The project is

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Highland Council approves critical substation replacement projects and raises no objection to Melgarve cluster overhead line 

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SSEN Transmission has welcomed the decisions of Highland Council’s South Planning Committee this week to grant consent for three replacement substations at Deanie and Culligran in Glen Strathfarrar, and at Kilmorack. The existing substations were built in the 1960s to connect the associated hydroelectric generation assets to the electricity transmission network and have long supported

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New History of Power Transmission in the North of Scotland Published

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The story of power transmission in the north of Scotland is being told in a new book published by SSE Heritage, the archive and history arm of Perth-based electricity company SSE. Called ‘The Highland Grid’, it draws on over 100 years of archive documents, newspaper cuttings and interviews with people who worked on the high

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