London Power Tunnels is a £1 billion project to rewire South London via deep underground tunnels between Wimbledon and Crayford, which will carry high-voltage electricity cables. The project, which kicked off in spring 2020, is keen to give back to the local communities affected by the project’s vital infrastructure works.
The sensors will continuously monitor the transmission lines and apply advanced analytics to calculate the Dynamic Line Rating. The Dynamic Line Rating is determined by a power lines physical and electrical properties, such as size, resistance and maximum safe operating temperature, as well as the local weather conditions.
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The consultation is due to launch on Monday 31 October and will run until 8.59am on Tuesday 29 November. The consultation will include drop-in events across the region for members of the public. Further information will be presented on the project website and in some local libraries.
The engineering team had planned to remove the two culverts in the area in August. Ahead of starting any construction, ecological surveys are carried out and measures put in place to reduce disruption to local wildlife. Water voles were not identified during initial ecological surveys and monitoring of the works to install the culverts, but had appeared since.
Work on the transmission line which runs from Cottam Power Station, near Lincoln, to Wymondley Substation near Stevenage passing near Newark, Stamford, Peterborough and Hitchin, started in March this year and will take two years. National Grid’s Operations teams and Morrison Energy Services have been working at heights of up to 50m, installing around 1440km (895 Miles) of new overhead line to replace the original, which was installed in the 1960s and is now approaching the end of its scheduled working lifespan.
On Friday 30 September, the Fire and Rescue team practiced a variety of rescue operations on an unelectrified pylon, on the downland above Winterbourne Abbas, prior to its removal as one of 22 being taken down as part of the Dorset VIP project.
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We recently published a series of films designed to inform our customers about the connections landscape in different regions of England and Wales.
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We are facing challenging times, with gas shortages and rising energy costs caused by the current unrest in Eastern Europe. For the first time on record, temperatures in the UK exceeded 40°C this summer, and we are already witnessing the dangers of climate change and the startling decline of the natural environment. Against this backdrop, we have seen the world’s low carbon ambitions gather momentum, alongside an increasing focus on understanding and valuing our impacts and dependencies on the natural world.
The consultation launched on Thursday 8 September and was originally due to conclude next week, on 7 October. However, last month National Grid announced that it would extend the consultation until 11:59pm on Wednesday 19 October 2022. This decision, which will allow stakeholders and the community more time to respond, was taken following the sad passing of Her Majesty the Queen and in respect to the national period of mourning that took place earlier in the consultation period.
The T-pylons in the reserve took priority in the construction programme to avoid disturbance to wintering birds and other wildlife throughout the winter. T-pylon components for the remaining 66 structures are being delivered to sites this autumn, ready to be fit onto foundations which are already in place.
The T-pylons will join a line of 27 traditional lattice pylons being built in Avonmouth, where work started in July, to make the final connection into the substation at Seabank - the northernmost point of the Hinkley Connection.