Freedom
We play a critical role in supporting the UK’s transition to a more resilient and sustainable energy network.
We advise, design, connect, build, maintain and renew electricity and infrastructure access across the UK. Our highly skilled teams work with customers to ensure efficient and reliable high voltage electricity infrastructure keeping homes and business connected.
As a NERS accredited Independent Connection Provider, we support customers throughout the whole project lifecycle; from identifying suitable land and undertaking feasibility studies, right through to the detailed design and build of the connection, which can be from 11kV up to 132kV.
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Featured Projects
Dagenham Data Centre
Our Freedom team was appointed to design and build an 80 MVA 132kV connection to a new data centre in the UK Power Networks region. To facilitate the connection to an existing 132kV OHL terminal tower, Freedom installed its new point of connection mast - POC-MAST™ which provided a quicker and cheaper final connection point.
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St Osyth Solar Farm
The POC-MAST™ provided a safe, cost-effective solution ensuring working at height was minimised. Although this was the first time this solution was used in the UK, the design and installation were safely delivered to time and programme. It also reduced the 33kV cable connection length by 350m.
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Lyneham Base Solar Farm
This project saw a POC-MAST™ installed for a 70MW solar farm. The 213-acre solar farm at the former RAF Lyneham base in Wiltshire has been developed by SSEN with the Ministry of Defence. The location, next to a wooded area, presented several challenges, meaning that it was initially presumed that the permanent connection would require the installation of a new pylon, the diversion of an overhead line and the removal of part of the woodland.
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Birmingham Airport
This project forms part of the airport’s HV maintenance framework. Our Freedom business has been appointed to carry out the HV maintenance and HV upgrades to ensure there are no unplanned outages and 100% resilience to their network. They also provide annual inspections and full maintenance over the course of the contract and as part of the planned work any defects identified are completed during separate visits to site. Additionally, the site is covered by their 24 hour emergency call out service.
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EHV Ferrybridge to Monckton
Our Freedom business was appointed by Northern Powergrid to carry out the complete rebuild of 70 Extra High Voltage (EHV) steel Woodhouse masts covering approximately 10km of overhead line that runs between Ferrybridge (275/66/11KV grid supply point) and Monckton (66/11KV Primary Sub Masts) in Yorkshire. The work involved taking down the existing steel Woodhouse masts, removing the concrete foundations and replacing with a modern wood pole equivalent and modern aluminium alloy conductor, as close to the existing overhead line foot print as possible.
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Hutchison Ports Felixstowe
Our Freedom business delivers port infrastructure services on this civil engineering term maintenance contract, including hard standing block maintenance, ground works and drainage, roads maintenance including line marking, fencing, demolition, and minor civils work. Service delivery is based on both planned and reactive works delivery 24/7, 365 days per year. Due to the location of the site and the requirement of working in an extremely active and controlled environment, attention to health and safety compliance and ensuring there is no disruption to the client’s core business forms a vital part of the works.
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Project Merlin
Our Freedom business designed, built, owns and operates a 132/11kV private substation for Digital Realty Datacentres. They undertook all feasibility works and provided a firm network with two 4km 132kV cable routes running through heavily congested and high concentration of known utilities. Whilst the substation was to be a private network, the design was to DNO standards, future-proofing the options for the Client when choosing potential operators.
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