SSE Enterprise Telecoms will provide the communications infrastructure for the 1075MW Seagreen offshore wind farm off Scotland.
SSE Enterprise Telecoms was selected following a tender.
It will be responsible for the installation of a comprehensive wide area network (WAN) between the substation at Tealing, Dundee, and the operations centre in Montrose.
The connection will provide offshore wind farm engineers based at Montrose with the visibility of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and technical equipment at Tealing needed to manage the distribution of power to the substation.
A joint venture partnership between SSE Renewables and Total is investing £3bn to deliver Seagreen, with onshore construction already underway and offshore construction due to get underway later this year.
The role of SSE Enterprise Telecoms will be to facilitate the flow of data between the offshore wind farm’s planned substation and onshore operations centre, to allow for data analysis.
By enabling the transfer of data between on and offshore sites, the UK telco said it will be providing access to important insights into power, temperature and energy trends.