Works to upgrade the electricity infrastructure and power supplies for thousands of homes and businesses in Binstead have been completed by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN), on time and to budget.
Taking just 1 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 properties by boosting the resilience of their power supplies.
The substation is located off Newnham Lane, between Binstead and Firestone Copse.
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.
Katherine Foley, SSEN Project Manager, has 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.
“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.”
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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.
What’s that about Steve ?
Have you found another job yet buddy ?
Well done SSEN, really nice to see investment being done on the Island. Shame Southern Water doesn’t feel the same.
The new building project of 3,200 homes in binstead will help create lots of jobs 🙂
Nice neat work for overhead lines ,,, maybe now they should look at other overhead lines eg cocelton Lane I’ve never seen cables swing around so much in the wind , they will be pulling out the pole boxes then hurt someone and droopy Slack is an understatement
They are only a phone call away.
If its not safe phone 105, they can’t fix it if they don’t know.
Droopy and slack, pulling out the dirt boxes ?
Sounds like you really have lost your Mojo.
Where does it say dirt boxes idiot