Torfichen Energy Park Grid Connection and Glenburnie Wind Farm Grid Connection - Public Consultation Events
What is planned?
Public Consultation Events
Torfichen Energy Park Grid Connection
Longcroft Wind Farm (now called Glenburnie Wind Farm) Grid Connection
23 February 2026 until 24 March 2026
SP Energy Networks (SPEN) is proposing the construction of new electricity transmission infrastructure consisting of two connections linking into a proposed cable sealing end (CSE) approximately 2 km west of Oxton in the Scottish Borders. Both connections will use trident wood poles, and possible underground cables.
Torfichen Energy Park Grid Connection will connect to the proposed Torfichen Energy Park substation (TEP). The connection will include approximately 20 km of 132kV overhead lines.
Longcroft Wind Farm (now called Glenburnie Wind Farm) Grid Connection will connect to the proposed Glenburnie Wind Farm substation. The connection will include approximately 7.5 km of 132kV overhead lines.
SPEN has a legal duty under the Electricity Act to provide grid connections to new electricity-generating developments and has been approached by the developer of these projects to provide a connection.
We would like to hear your views on the Preferred Routes. Information about the project will be available on our website from 2 February. The consultation will run from 23 February 2026 to 24 March 2026. During this time, you can share your views by filling out our feedback form and submitting it online, in person, or by post.
We’re holding two in-person events listed below where you can share your views, find out more and speak to the team.
Monday 23 February | 15:00-19:00 (TEP and Longcroft Wind Farm connections)
Oxton War Memorial Hall, Station Road, Oxton, Berwickshire, Borders, TD2 6PL.
Tuesday 24 February | 15:00 – 19:00 (Torfichen Energy Park connection only)
MacFie Hall, 2 B709, Heriot, EH38 5YA.
You can provide your feedback by:
• completing a feedback form on our website:
www.spenergynetworks.co.uk/pages/torfichen_wind_farm_connection.aspx
www.spenergynetworks.co.uk/pages/longcroft_wind_farm_connection.aspx
or at the in-person events;
• writing to us or sending a hard copy of the feedback form by post to:
Torfichen / Longcroft Grid Connection Project, Land and Planning Team, SP Energy Networks, 55 Fullarton Drive, Glasgow, G32 8FA; or
• sending an email
to torfichengc@spenergynetworks.co.uk or
longcroftgc
Feedback received during this consultation will be taken into consideration alongside findings of environmental surveys to help identify the final proposed alignment for the overhead line.
Please note that any comments made during this consultation stage are not representations to the Scottish Government's Energy Consents Unit, which will determine any subsequent application for consent. Following the submission of the Section 37 application, interested parties will have the opportunity to make representations to the Scottish Government on these proposals.
To be considered as part of this consultation, all feedback should be received by 24 March 2026.
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