The obscure Transmission Entry Capacity (TEC) Register gives us a window into the scale of energy projects coming our way. Spoiler alert, there’s a lot.
I have found a new substation in Wales (Llandyfaelog) with three different names in the TEC, so it does take some looking. Then the new substation in Lower Frankton (Shropshire) is called Chirk GSP (in Wales). Gwyddelwern you would never dream of putting a substation near, so you’d never look, I found it by chance!
It is perhaps the least user-friendly way they could publish the information. Just adding a “date added” field would allow the data to be sorted quickly - it’s deliberately hard to navigate, which is why I’ve started monitoring it and publishing new additions!
Excellent! They also don’t remove things when plans change so some wind farms are shown as connecting to two different substations, and project names change and dont get updated
FYI Llandyfaelog is also called Ferryside and Pont Abraham
Excellent article Richard, as usual. But I don’t feel as optimistic as you that greater transparency and better communication are enough. The entire premise that net zero could really save the world and is worthy of sacrifice needs to be reevaluated. When you realise and accept that it is a futile objective then everything else starts to make sense. This debate must be started, but like other taboo subjects, there are barriers to be broken in introducing the very idea that ‘we were wrong’.
I have found a new substation in Wales (Llandyfaelog) with three different names in the TEC, so it does take some looking. Then the new substation in Lower Frankton (Shropshire) is called Chirk GSP (in Wales). Gwyddelwern you would never dream of putting a substation near, so you’d never look, I found it by chance!
It is perhaps the least user-friendly way they could publish the information. Just adding a “date added” field would allow the data to be sorted quickly - it’s deliberately hard to navigate, which is why I’ve started monitoring it and publishing new additions!
Excellent! They also don’t remove things when plans change so some wind farms are shown as connecting to two different substations, and project names change and dont get updated
FYI Llandyfaelog is also called Ferryside and Pont Abraham
Excellent article Richard, as usual. But I don’t feel as optimistic as you that greater transparency and better communication are enough. The entire premise that net zero could really save the world and is worthy of sacrifice needs to be reevaluated. When you realise and accept that it is a futile objective then everything else starts to make sense. This debate must be started, but like other taboo subjects, there are barriers to be broken in introducing the very idea that ‘we were wrong’.
I find it impenetrable. How can one get more information about specific projects, siting etc? Baffled. Traci Weaver, Kelsale