Woodcock delivered an engaging presentation to a lecture hall full of engineering and land management undergraduates. Pupils learned about the construction work National Grid are doing locally, how potential impacts on landowners are managed, and how National Grid and its contractors work with stakeholders.
Joined by Woodcock, the students made their way outside to complete a practical exercise – stringing miniature T-pylons with rope ‘conductors’.
Alice Delahunty, President of National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) recently appeared on Energy Unplugged, a weekly podcast by Aurora Energy Research.
Energy Unplugged invites high-profile guests from the energy world to share their unique perspectives on major issues and to discuss the ‘hottest topics’ across the sector.
Suicide rates for construction workers in the UK are over three times the national average with over two employees dying by suicide every day.
This highlights that wellbeing initiatives are not reaching the most vulnerable and more needs to be done to improve support and services offered within the sector.
The Going Underground* project is replacing 22 pylons and 8.8km of wires with underground cables, transforming the views of the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) near the villages of Martinstown and Winterbourne Abbas. It's one of the first projects in the world to remove existing high-voltage electricity transmission infrastructure solely to enhance the landscape.
During the month of April, the site reported its highest ever monthly utilisation rate, with the terminal exporting a daily average of 431 GWh of gas, beating its previous record of 412.2 GWh recorded in April 2021. The figure represents 67 per cent of the plant’s total utilisation and equates to approximately 13 per cent of the UK’s total gas demand.
National Grid is focused on creating a workplace where all its people can thrive. In 2021, National Grid reported no material gender pay gap in the UK, launched a new diversity strategy with clear objectives and greater accountability around the organisation to highlight that DEI is everyone’s responsibility, and hired its first Chief Diversity Officer to lead these efforts.
NGET owns 21,900 steel lattice pylons that carry overhead transmission conductor wires in England and Wales. Transmission pylon steelwork condition can deteriorate through corrosion, so periodic assessments are made to understand the health of the network. NGET inspects around 3,650 steel lattice pylons each year, capturing high definition still colour images of steelwork using helicopters and manually flown drones.
Based in Nailsea, Ravenswood School enables local children with complex learning needs to flourish. A £18,050 grant from National Grid helped the school to take their sensory room to the next level.
Every pupil at Ravenswood has unique needs and an individually-tailored curriculum; the sensory room plays a crucial role in their progress. Over the years, use of the room had started to take its toll, and it had become outdated and in need of a refresh. The funding helped the school fund the upgrades to this greatly needed resource.
Ofgem has approved National Grid’s request to make early payments to consumers of £200 million over the next two years as part of the regulatory regime for electricity interconnectors.