560m investment to boost Scottish wind power
ScottishPower and Scottish and Southern Energy are to spend £560m on upgrading their transmission networks. Ofgem gave the go-ahead on the investment to enable more wind farms to be connected to the grid, although household and business customers will ultimately foot the
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