{"id":807706,"date":"2026-10-19T16:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807706\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T16:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:10:16","slug":"new-deep-sea-cable-factory-will-bolster-scotlands-energy-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807706\/","title":{"rendered":"New deep-sea cable factory will &#8216;bolster&#8217; Scotland&#8217;s energy security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">First Minister John Swinney said the \u00a3350m facility was strong vote of confidence in Scotland&#8217;s people, skills and engineering excellence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As the first factory of its kind in the UK, it will help unlock our enormous offshore wind potential while bolstering energy security,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swinney attended the opening alongside the UK government&#8217;s Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Labour MP said: &#8220;Scotland is helping to solve one of the biggest challenges in our transition to clean energy, connecting offshore wind to where it&#8217;s needed most.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sumitomo said the HVDC cables were important in the transport of &#8220;massive amounts of Scottish wind power directly to high-demand areas in the rest of the UK&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The manufacturing plant sits within the Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is an area, specially designated by both the Scottish and UK governments, where normal tax and customs rules do not apply in full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First Minister John Swinney said the \u00a3350m facility was strong vote of confidence in Scotland&#8217;s people, skills and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-807706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}