Moray West Offshore Windfarm

Moray West is an 860MW offshore wind farm in the outer Moray Firth which will provide a secure, reliable source of energy and deliver a low-cost, low-carbon supply of electricity for up to 640,000 homes.

The substation will be built at Whitehillock, near Keith in Moray and will step up the voltage from 220 to 400 kilovolts (kV). Its location has been selected to minimise the environmental impact and to allow connection to existing national electricity transmission system infrastructure at the neighbouring Blackhillock substation.

Careys scope of works will consisted of the following:

Enabling Works:
- Earthworks
- Top soil strip to site, construct 4nr earth bunds with excavated topsoil
- Bulk Excavate 50,000m3 of soil and rock (27,000m3 is estimated to be
rock and will be crushed on site and used as fill to construct the substation compound)
- Drainage
- Temporary and permanent drainage to the site
- Attenuation pond
- New culverts
- Roadworks
- Construction of new bell-mouth and external access road from the edge of the compound to the A96
- New access road from existing farmers access track to attenuation pond