Gravir villagers face SSE over giant convertor station
Energy giant SSE faces unhappy residents at Gravir and Pairc in a public meeting in Gravir School tonight.
Scottish And Southern Energy (SSE) through its subsidiary firm Scottish Hydro-Electric Transmission (Shetl) wants to build a large electricity convertor station on a hill above the village.
Renewable energy generated from giant wind farm on Lewis would be carried over a widespread series of overhead electrical lines and poles to converge in Gravir.
SSE propose to build a large sub-sea interconnector cable down into Loch Odhairn sealoch and across the Minch to link the Gravir convertor station with the mainland.
Power generated from the neighbouring proposed Pairc and Eishken wind farms would be feed through the convertor station as would electricity from anticipated future large wind farms around Stornoway and North Lewis.
SSE says it could force the building of the transmission system on and over crofts and feus if necessary.
It refuses to shift the proposed converter station further away onto the adjacent private Eishken estate apparently because it would cost extra millions of pounds.
28 August 2008
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