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27-year-old Erinn Sapsford was tempted away from her original career plans after enjoying an ‘industry year’ at National Grid during her Mechanical Engineering degree. As a Business Readiness Engineer, she applies her skills to one of our key projects, enabling the UK to import more green energy from Norway.

Research reveals 400,000 job opportunities for a ‘Net Zero Energy Workforce’, including nearly 100,000 roles across the north of England.

Within National Grid’s Corporate Strategy team, Belinda Littleton’s role is to translate big picture aims and thinking into tangible actions for the business. Here she focuses particularly on her work on electric vehicles, with initiatives that could have a significant impact on the nation’s drivers.

45-year-old Andrew Benjamin, Head of Project Delivery at National Grid, specialises in the process of carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS). With potential to make a significant contribution to tackling climate change, CCUS allows us to store greenhouse gases, rather than releasing them into the air.

WALTHAM, MA – National Grid has been recognized for its innovative online marketplace that simplifies the process of installing solar energy for its customers by the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC).

At the start of a pivotal decade in the struggle to combat climate change, National Grid has commissioned a report exploring the skills we need to help turn the UK’s ambition to become the world’s first net zero economy by 2050 into a reality.

Committed to fighting climate change, Laura Rainey, 31, chose to take an MSc in Carbon Management. Now Senior Project Manager for Electric Vehicles at National Grid, she’s working on ways we can enhance and develop the electric vehicle charging network, to encourage more of us to switch from petrol and diesel vehicles.

Meeting the UK’s 2050 net zero target will require collaboration across business, Government and consumers. National Grid is pleased to be supporting the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Net Zero; a cross-party grouping of MPs interested in the UK’s Net Zero transition. Rhian Kelly, Head of Public Affairs and Policy, shares her thoughts.