Its Strategic Infrastructure business unit is seeking partners to deliver a major electricity transmission infrastructure programme, representing £4.5 billion worth of network construction by 2030.
The Community Grant Programme is aimed at community organisations and charities located in areas where National Grid is working. The Programme funds projects run by charities and community groups that meet local community needs by providing a range of social, economic and environmental benefits. With National Grid’s Eryri Visual Impact Provision (VIP) project gathering pace in the Penrhyndeudraeth area, Porthmadog Junior Football Club applied for funding towards buying portable LED lighting and also to repair their pitch.
National Grid's carbon neutral landscaping contractors Ground Control have been busy planting new trees which will be enjoyed by young people at Barton Camp, Winscombe. This is just the latest way in which National Grid is helping to support education and young people along the Hinkley Connection route.
The funding has allowed the trust to purchase a minibus and contribute towards the charity’s funding goal to refurbish its community hub. The minibus will transport residents from their home to their doctor, shops and to anywhere else they may need, including the local community hub and café where they can socialise.
Significant progress has already been made towards transforming the UK’s power system, with a huge expansion in clean energy in recent years, as well as substantial investment in our electricity networks. But fully decarbonising the power sector by 2035 will require more urgent action from industry, government and the regulator.
The data from National Grid analytics reveals that it has taken 50 years to reach the milestone, and based on current projections, will take just over five years to reach the next trillionth kWh.
Representing a world first in terms of pylon design, the first T-pylon to be built was constructed in September 2021 near East Huntspill.
T-pylons are quicker to erect than traditional lattice pylons and 47 more T-pylons were completed, including installation of the conductors by the end of 2022.
Our T-pylons will play a central role in connecting low carbon energy to millions of people when Hinkley Point C begins generation.
736m3, or 736,000 litres (enough to fill around two 25m swimming pools) of more sustainable, cement-free concrete was poured to fill the base of the 55m deep tunnel drive shaft at National Grid’s Hurst Substation in South London. The cement free solution was developed by Wagners and supplied by Capital Concrete and uses a binder of ground granulated blast furnace slag and fly ash geopolymer concrete system chemically activated by the use of industrial waste products instead of cement.
This follows installation of new switchgear at the site by Cero and Enso in collaboration with National Grid, and the running of a high-voltage cable between the substation and solar farm, which has enabled National Grid to successfully connect the 49.9MW Larks Green solar farm to its Iron Acton substation near Bristol.
The solar plant comprises 152,400 solar modules installed in a 200-acre plot near National Grid's 400kV Iron Acton substation.
Vintage engineering met new innovation at the weekend as National Grid’s T-pylons (the first new pylon design in 100 years) saluted the iconic Flying Scotsman as it travelled through Somerset as part of the famous locomotive’s centenary.