To ensure the safety of our team while materials are being moved onto the site, traffic management measures will be in place from 09:30 to 15:00 on 9, 10 and 13 June 2025.
This work will be carried out by Balfour Beatty, on behalf of National Grid.
LineVision’s Dynamic Line Rating (DLR) technology has been installed on National Grid’s network to increase the capacity of over 275 kilometres of overhead line conductor.
The sensors and data analytics platform will highlight spare capacity on overhead power lines allowing for the integration of more renewable power.
At National Grid, we believe in the power of education and the importance of supporting initiatives that foster learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).
- Large supergrid transformer delivery will be made to Cellarhead substation on Monday 2 June under police escort
- Delivery part of routine maintenance and upgrades to essential equipment
- Transformers help to change the voltage of electricity so that it can be supplied safely to homes and businesses.
National Grid is delivering a large supergrid transformer to Cellarhead substation in Staffordshire as part of essential upgrades at the site to ensure safe and reliable energy supplies in the region into the future.
To ensure the safety of our team while materials are being moved onto the site, traffic management measures will be in place from 09:30 to 15:00 on 28 May 2025 and from 09:30 to 14:00 on both 2 and 3 June 2025.
This work will be carried out by Balfour Beatty, on behalf of National Grid.
- New Power Flow Control equipment is being installed adjacent to the existing substation, helping to make our electricity network more efficient
- This work demonstrates National Grid’s continued investment in its network across the North East, with the South Shields substation playing a key role in supplying electricity to homes and businesses in the area.
- This work will boost the volume of clean energy that National Grid’s circuits can carry, therefore increasing the amount of renewable energy used across the country.
- Advanced uncrewed survey vessels (USV’s) departed from Scarborough, North Yorkshire for safe, low-impact seabed survey to enable planning for Eastern Green Link 5 subsea cable route
- Eastern Green Link 5 is a joint venture between SSEN Transmission and National Grid Electricity Transmission, currently in the earliest stages of planning and consultation.
- Project will help enable clean energy transmission between Scotland and England
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What is COP?
The Conference of the Parties (COP) is an annual summit of all the countries that are signed up to the United Nation’s treaty to combat climate change- the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)- which came into being in 1994. It’s the world’s most significant summit on climate change.