Stories from across the Hinkley Connection Project
15 August 2023
August 2023 sees the last of 23 pylons removed between Nailsea and Portishead as part of National Grid’s Hinkley Connection Project, some from within residents' gardens.
On 8 August 2023, National Grid’s principal contractor, Balfour Beatty, felled the last of 15 lattice pylons in and around Portbury Wharf Nature Reserve as part of National Grid’s Hinkley Connection Project.
When pupils at Avonmouth C of E School and Nursery return after the holidays, they will experience a whole new view. The, 132kV electricity pylon that has loomed over the school’s forest area will have disappeared.
2 August 2023
The 232nd diamond-shaped insulator was lifted into place by crane onto a T-pylon between Yatton and Kenn in North Somerset on 11 July.
6 July 2023
The transformer weighs the same as 30 elephants and is 8.8 metres long
26 June 2023
National Grid wins international award for its commitment to communities