The new rules introduced by the UK Civil Aviation Authority gives us the potential to transform the way we inspect the electricity transmission network.
Wiltshire Search and Rescue is a voluntary organisation deployed at the request of the emergency services. Their primary aim is to find high-risk, vulnerable missing people, provide lifesaving medical care and return them to a place of safety.
The team works with a variety of organisations, including local councils and utilities providers, to provide help during incidents like flooding or in other adverse weather conditions.
National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) has been awarded £920,000 for projects to support the decarbonisation of rural communities and the construction industry. Rural Energy and Community Heat (REACH) aims to address the difficulties in supplying adequate electrical capacity to support the take-up of low carbon technologies in isolated areas, and Road to Power seeks to support the growing use of electricity to power road and other construction equipment.
Graded a ‘B’ by MiQ, Grain LNG is the first LNG port in the world to receive MiQ’s accreditation and is the first facility outside of North America. The announcement was made at the BloombergNEF London Summit.
In the report, we focus on four key areas:
Net Zero Carbon Emissions
Sustainable use of resources
Nature positive initiatives
Leadership for change
Devizes Outdoor Celebratory Arts (DOCA) is celebrating the news that it has been successful in its application for funding from National Grid’s Community Grant Programme.
The Community Grant Programme is aimed at community organisations and charities in areas where National Grid’s Electricity Transmission work is impacting on local people through its operations and site activities.
Since its inception in December 2015, the programme has awarded over £4.6 million to projects across the country.
The local community is invited to find out more about National Grid’s plans and provide their feedback:
In a significant milestone in the step towards decarbonising the energy system, representatives from National Grid and SSEN Transmission took the first ceremonial spadefuls of earth, marking the start of main construction, at events held at either end of the subsea link in Peterhead in Scotland and Wren Hall in Drax, near Selby in North Yorkshire.
The equipment – large transformer-shaped devices called shunt reactors – help regulate the complex movement of energy in an alternating current (AC), a movement which is influenced by ‘reactive power’.
Reactive power can be added into the grid by switching in shunt reactors to keep voltage levels stable, giving the NESO’s control room extra tools at its disposal to manage the electricity system securely.
The security threat landscape
In an increasingly digital world, cyber threats continue to emerge and evolve. Five trends in this evolving security threat landscape include1:
1. Evolving risks to critical infrastructure
2. Ransomware
3. Supply chain exploitation