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The contracts were awarded after Spencer Group made it onto National Grid’s Project Civils Framework for expanding the electricity network. Image: Spencer Group

Spencer Group lands role preparing substations for renewable connections

Ground and enabling works are needed to connect substations in Yorkshire and Merseyside to new battery storage facilities.

The government says speculative applications are inflating the pipeline, delaying connections for strategically important projects and contributing to grid-connection waits of up to 15 years. Image: By Matthew Henry/Unsplash.

Government to crack down on ‘speculative’ grid requests as applications soar

With 140 new data centres now requesting grid connection, the government wants powers to weed out applications from non-viable schemes.