On World Youth Skills Day we asked our Gridterns to give us the inside track on interning with National Grid, including advice on how to apply for an internship and the benefits they’ve gained during their time working with our teams in New York.
One of the last stages of work to create a vital new gas pipeline under the River Humber has been completed. The 5km replacement tunnel, which houses the pipeline, was finished at the turn of the year. Now, in the penultimate stage of the project and with some exceptional engineering, the pipeline itself has been inserted into the tunnel.
Work to replace a vital gas pipeline under the River Humber is almost complete.
Construction of a 5km replacement tunnel 30m under the River Humber completed last year and now, in the penultimate stage of the project, the last piece of gas pipeline has been inserted.
The last of our Transmission Network Control Centre (TNCC) teams, who’ve been living on site to keep the country’s power going during the pandemic, has returned home.
The first steps of a three-year project to construct an important new subsea electricity cable, known as Viking Link, have been taken. This, the latest of our interconnector projects, will stretch 765km to link Bicker Fen in Lincolnshire with Revsing in Denmark, connecting the energy systems of the two countries.
The construction phase of the Viking Link Interconnector project, a high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) link between the UK and Denmark, has commenced with Siemens Energy Ltd mobilizing to site to start the construction of the first stage of works, a 2.4km long access road for the Bicker Fen converter station site.
The route of our Hinkley Connection Project passes through landscape that has been occupied and shaped by humans for over 40,000 years. Each period has left its own traces, from incredibly rare prehistoric remains, through to artefacts from the Roman, Saxon and medieval periods.
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, one of our US operating companies, has successfully issued a green bond that’s the first of its kind across our US business.
Lorna McAtear is in charge of the cars and vans our teams need to do their jobs, whether they’re heading out to check a city substation or repairing cabling in a remote, rural area. As part of our corporate commitment to reaching net zero by 2050, she’s working to ensure that all our vehicles are fuelled by cleaner fuel sources than petrol and diesel by 2030.