Businesses and organisations at a Neath Port Talbot energy park have avoided having their electricity supply cut off after a private power network was placed into liquidation. Businesses at Baglan Energy Park previously received their electricity supply via a private wire network from an on-site gas-fired power station.
In March 2021 the company that owned the private wire network was placed into compulsory liquidation. This resulted in the company’s operations, including the private wire network, becoming the responsibility of the Insolvency Service, who were tasked with winding down operations.
The Welsh Government has invested more than £4m to support Western Power Distribution, as the local licensed distribution network operator, to rapidly design and build replacement networks. This meant accelerating the process of building a new network – which would have initially taken between 18 months to two years to build. The investment has also minimised the significant costs affected businesses would have had to meet to connect to the new network.
