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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.

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.

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.

With documents dating back to the 17th Century, the National Grid archive offers a fascinating window into the history of Britain.