This historic milestone comes as we enter the mid-point between 1990 and 2050 – the year in which the UK has committed to achieve at least a 100% reduction in emissions based on 1990 levels.
At zero degrees Celsius (32F) your fingers and toes burn with cold. Your cheeks flush and you’ll wish you’d worn thermal undergarments.
At minus ten degrees Celsius (14F), it gets harder to breathe. Your airways constrict and people with asthma might find it tricky to take deep breaths.
Infrastructure specialists Balfour Beatty have been awarded a £90m contract to deliver the onshore civil works for the Viking Link interconnector project. As part of the four-year contract Balfour Beatty will be responsible for the civil engineering and installation of 68Km of high-voltage cabling across Lincolnshire.
Utilities build, operate and maintain different types of networks that deliver energy reliably and safely to their customers. At the same time, they have a responsibility to protect these networks from compromise, including cyberattacks on all the sensors, endpoints, software, firmware and other infrastructure – which may be brand-new or decades old.
Work is scheduled to start in March next year. The £1bn, eight-year project will see the construction of a 32.5km tunnel which will house electricity transmission cables 30m underground. The new cables will replace three circuits that currently run under the surface of roads between Wimbledon in the southwest to Crayford in the southeast.
The project has been developed to minimise disruption for Londoners, eliminating the need to dig up the existing cable infrastructure, which is now more than 50-years-old and reaching the end of its life.
National Grid is looking to renew and improve electricity infrastructure to ensure a continued safe and secure supply to London. Its London Power Tunnels (LPT2) project is a key part of this.
The cables are part of National Grid’s Hinkley Connection Project, which, once complete, will connect new sources of low-carbon energy, such as Hinkley Point C, to homes and businesses.
Geronimo Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of National Grid Plc, has announced the start of commercial operations for its 200 megawatt Crocker Wind Farm in Clark County, South Dakota. This wind energy project was built by Wanzek Construction, using GE 2.7-116 wind turbines. Crocker already has Virtual Power Purchase Agreements in place with leading corporations, including Walmart and Cargill.
These plans have been developed following extensive engagement with customers, industry stakeholders, nondomestic consumers and households across the country.