This year’s five-mile walk will be exploring Roundway Hill, including the site of the Civil War Battle of Roundway Down and the Iron Age hillfort, Oliver’s Castle.
Members of the team will be on hand to answer questions and explain why and how the landscape around the Millennium White Horse has been singled out for special attention.
National Grid is also moving its five remaining webinars until after the general election takes place.
Norwich to Tilbury is needed to connect new sources of low carbon energy to homes and businesses across Britain and help reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. It will play a key role in addressing the climate emergency and helping achieve the UK’s targets for net zero.
National Grid is preparing for the delivery of a large supergrid transformer to the site of a new grid supply point (GSP) substation between Butler’s Wood and Waldegrave Wood, off the A131 south of Sudbury. The GSP substation is needed so that existing 132 kV overhead line can be removed as part of the construction of the planned Bramford to Twinstead Reinforcement.
The supergrid transformer is a key component of the new GSP substation. Weighing in at 178 tonnes, it converts the voltage of electricity so that it can be safely supplied to local homes and businesses.
National Grid today announced plans to invest an estimated $75 billion* across the company’s service territory in the UK and US over the next five years, with nearly half of the funding dedicated to US energy system improvements in Massachusetts and New York. This significant step up to approximately $35 billion* of investment represents an increase of more than 60% on National Grid’s investment in the region in the last five years.
The eight-week public consultation, which starts 14 May and runs until 9 July, will share proposals for Chesterfield to Willington, a new 60-kilometre, high voltage electricity power line running between a new substation at Chesterfield (part of a separate project Brinsworth – High Marnham) and an existing substation at Willington.
The Great Grid Upgrade is the largest overhaul of the grid in generations. It will play a large part in the UK government’s plan to boost homegrown power, helping the UK switch to clean energy and make sure our electricity network is fit for the future; carrying more clean and secure energy from where it’s generated to where it's needed.
Our electricity networks in England and Wales are made up of largely interconnected circuits formed of overhead lines, usually carrying voltages of 275kV and 400kV. The individual equipment in a circuit is rated to a certain capacity to carry electricity, which cannot be exceeded without increasing the risk of fault. So, when more connections wish to export or import extra energy to or from the grid, certain necessary upgrades to existing circuits may be required to accommodate this.
The UK’s newest electricity interconnector, which stretches for 757km to join rural Lincolnshire with Revsing in Denmark, has been named as the longest land and subsea HVDC interconnector.
Members of the project team were joined by a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ adjudicator at the UK converter site in Bicker Fen on Tuesday 30 April to officially receive the title and certificates.
The Network Innovation Allowance funded project aims to develop a tool to coordinate the installation and operation of advanced power flow control (APFC) devices like Smart Wires’ SmartValve™, to avoid network constraints and boost the amount of clean energy flowing.
As electricity generation and demand decarbonises, the way power flows across the network is becoming more complex to manage, with transmission circuits easily becoming unequally loaded and less efficient at carrying energy.