Please note due to adverse weather conditions the delivery of the transformer has been delayed until Wednesday 16 September (again weather dependent).
It’s important that National Grid stays connected with its customers, especially during these unprecedented times. National Grid Metering were keen to gather customers feedback on how they have dealt with communication in this challenging time.
Whilst attending the HP asset site, National Grid Metering discovered some metal loss across one of the seam welds on a section of pipe which halted the general maintenance work whilst a new design was drawn up and fabricated. The section of pipe was 39 metres long with no flanged joints to disconnect, certainly presented a challenge.
Over recent years it’s become the norm for large companies to offer at least some staff wellbeing initiatives - from lunchtime mindfulness seminars and yoga classes to free counselling sessions - but doing so in the midst of a pandemic has brought fresh challenges, at a time when wellness needs boosting more than ever.
In celebration of the American Wind Energy Association’s American Wind Week, Geronimo Energy, a National Grid company, announced today that it has established a local charitable giving board, named the Crocker Community Fund Board, for the benefit of the communities connected to the Crocker Wind Farm. Crocker is a 200 megawatt (MW) operational wind energy project located in Clark County, SD. Crocker has executed Virtual Power Purchase Agreements with Walmart and Cargill, utilizes GE turbines, and was constructed by Wanzek Construction.
Traditionally jobs have been split into blue collar (typically manual roles) and white collar (those professions often done at a desk), but increasingly there’s talk of green collar work too. Green collar jobs are all about improving the environment and they’re seen as central to economic recovery and growth in the coming years.
Biomethane has been connected from a farm in Cambridgeshire to the Gas National Transmission System (NTS) for the first time at the end of July.
Murrow Anaerobic Digestion Plant in Cambridgeshire operated by Biocow Ltd produces the renewable gas made from cattle manure and straw.
National Grid will later this month take delivery of 95 tonnes of new underground cable which will run beneath Stockport. The new cable replaces the existing 60-year-old cable which connects the pylons beside Penny Lane, off Lancashire Hill, and at the Trans Pennine trail, behind Powerleague, in Heaton Mersey.
The £10 million project will be delivered by DNV GL, with support provided by the HSE Science Division and academic partnerships with Durham University and the University of Edinburgh and involves building a hydrogen test facility at DNV GL’s site at Spadeadam, Cumbria.
This time next year – at the end of July 2021 – the first T-pylon on National Grid’s Hinkley Connection is due to be constructed.