Our Competitions – your idea could help future generations
At National Grid, we’re committed to being an innovative leader in energy management and safeguarding the world around us for future generations.
Building a better future is something we can’t achieve alone, so twice a year we hold two innovation competitions. We invite innovators across the industry to help us confront and resolve the challenges facing our electricity transmission business.
Our two funding competitions are:
- Masters of Innovation Challenge
- Network Innovation Competition (NIC).
Masters of Innovation Challenge 2019
Could you be the next UK’s master of innovation? Every year we set three innovation challenges and give you two months to come up with ideas.
Whether you’re a university with a talent for developing new technology, a small business, consultancy or a large supplier, we’d love to hear from you.
Our innovation team will review your proposals and will put forward the best ideas for funding under the Network Innovation Allowance (NIA).
Teaming up with an organisation as large and well-resourced as ours provides an opportunity for you to bring your ideas out of the lab and into a solution that benefits our entire industry.
We’ll update this page soon with more information on our next Master of Innovation Challenge including entry details.
Our 2018 winners were, in no particular order:
| 3D Thermal imaging of Cable Sealing Ends – Manchester University |
| Acoustic Emission in Electrical Assets – Cardiff University |
| Smart Geo Grid – Cardiff University |
| Active Power Control Unit - Siemens |
| Unlocking Transmission Capacity Through Energy Storage - Quanta |
| Weather Analytics for Improved Transmission Constraint Management – Digital Engineering |
| Weather Analytics for Renewable Deployment – Digital Engineering. |
Electricity transmission innovation
Our commitment to innovation allows us to run, build, and maintain our network more efficiently and effectively, delivering benefits to consumers and shareholders.
Electricity transmission innovation
Stakeholder engagement
Find out how to book dates for face-to-face meetings with our innovation team where you can share your ideas and opinions with us.
Stakeholder engagement
Testing services
Discover the range of testing services we will be offering customers through our Deeside Centre for Innovation (DCI) facility.
Testing services
Projects
Here you can view a number of our research projects which include cable oil regeneration, overhead lines and SF6 management and alternative gases.
ProjectsThe Deeside Project – part of our NIC portfolio
If your proposal leads to a successful bid in 2019 it would join our cutting edge NIC innovation portfolio alongside the Deeside Project which has now been renamed as the Deeside Centre for Innovation (DCI).
DCI is Europe’s first innovation centre where electricity assets can be tested off-grid, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.