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National Grid Partners, the corporate venture capital and innovation arm of one of the world's largest investor-owned energy companies, today unveiled research that found nearly two-thirds of utility leaders have seen increased innovation budgets in the past year – and nearly all (96%) view artificial intelligence as a strategic focus.

The last of four 200-tonne transformers for the Yorkshire GREEN Monk Fryston substation will be delivered from Goole Docks on a specialist vehicle over 80 metres long under police escort and at low speed.

National Grid Electricity Transmission and SP Energy Networks have selected Prysmian as preferred bidder for the high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable system for the Eastern Green Link 4 (EGL4) project.

The Planning Inspectorate (PINS) has accepted National Grid’s development consent application for Norwich to Tilbury. This is a major milestone for the project, part of the upgrade to Britain’s electricity transmission network.

National Grid is building a brand new, state-of-the-art control centre that will reinforce network resilience, uphold National Grid Electricity Transmission’s (NGET) world-class reliability standards and power the clean energy transition.

National Grid’s transmission apprenticeship programmes have been rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted for the fourth consecutive occasion following its latest inspection.

Today, Thursday 18 September, National Grid begins four pre-application consultations on proposals to reinforce and refurbish the existing electricity network between Pentir and Trawsfynydd. The consultations are open until Wednesday 15 October. 

National Grid and Emerald AI today announced a strategic partnership to demonstrate how AI data centres can work with the transmission network to adjust their energy use in real time, making better use of existing capacity to support the UK’s growing digital needs.