On a winter’s day, returning to a cosy home or enjoying a hot bath or shower is something many of us take for granted. In at least eight of ten homes this warmth is fuelled by natural gas boilers. The problem is that heating systems are responsible for as much as 20% of UK carbon emissions and, with a national target of reaching net zero by 2050, we need to find a better, greener approach.
As they competed for the titles of bushiest and best whiskers, the group raised £630 through sponsorship and donations from friends, family and colleagues, which is being matched by National Grid to make the grand total of £1,260.
Jo Hopkinson, Founder of Your Cancer Cafe, said: “We are delighted with the generous donation from National Grid, which will go towards having our leaflets professionally printed so that more people can hear about this wonderful resource for people living with and beyond cancer.
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.
Data released by National Grid shows a combination of wind farms, solar and nuclear energy, alongside energy imported by subsea interconnectors, delivered 48.5% of Britain’s electricity in 2019 compared to 43% generated by fossil fuels. The remaining 8.5% was generated by biomass.
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.