Overview – Winter 2022
Our contractor, Balfour Beatty, has started to hang the wires (conductors) on the world’s first T-pylons, which will help carry low-carbon energy from Hinkley Point C and other sources to 6 million homes and businesses in the UK.
The team has begun hanging the wires on the new T-pylons between Bridgwater and Sandford. Starting at the new T-pylon north of Woolavington, the wiring will progress in sequence along the new connection route.
We expect to finish building the new T-pylons and the wiring work south of Sandford substation by spring 2022.
National Grid has started to remove 37 kilometres of existing 132,000 volt pylons owned by Western Power Distribution (WPD) between Bridgwater and Sandford. We’re carrying out the work in stages and expect to complete removing this line of pylons by summer 2022 – leaving part of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) pylon-free for the first time since the 1960s.
This work is part of the changes we’re making to WPD’s network, which will see 67 kilometres of existing overhead line and 249 pylons removed by 2025 to make way for and reduce the visual impact of the new T-pylons.
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