HLCP aims to deliver vital new infrastructure to decarbonise local industry and establish the Humber region, which currently accounts for 40% of all carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industrial clusters, as a globally competitive hub for green products and services.
The mammoth 4.8 metre tall units were transported to the site adjacent to Hinkley Point C power station on 26 March 2022. Each unit weighed in at 121 tonnes – as heavy as an adult blue whale!
The two subsea links, which will have a capacity of up to 4GW, will transport enough electricity to power four million homes. They are the largest electricity transmission investment projects in Britain’s recent history and will support hundreds of green jobs throughout construction and operation.
As part of National Grid’s commitment to reduce the visual impact of construction works and the permanent structures being built along the route, 1,257 trees, 39,527 m2 of woodland and 9,960 linear metres of hedges were planted in the 2021/22 winter planting season.
The planting season runs from November to March each year and National Grid has committed to planting a total of 5,959 trees, 33,995 linear metres of hedgerow and 277,060 square metres of woodland planting by March 2025.
Researchers, analysts and academics from Cardiff, Edinburgh, Exeter, Manchester, Southampton and Strathclyde Universities will partner with NGET colleagues on projects across a wide range of areas related to NGET’s work maintaining the electricity network in Great Britain.
National Grid’s IFA2 interconnector to France has paid off its carbon cost in less than a year.
The 1-gigawatt (GW) electricity cable, which stretches 120 miles across the seabed of the English Channel from Lee-on-Solent near Portsmouth and Caen in northwest France, was commissioned in January 2021.
The Consortium is comprised of Macquarie Asset Management, a global asset manager and the world’s largest infrastructure manager, and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), one of Canada’s largest institutional investors. As announced in March 2021, the Transaction forms part of National Grid’s strategic pivot towards electricity and follows last year’s acquisition of Western Power Distribution (WPD), the UK’s largest electricity distribution business, and announced sale of The Narragansett Electric Company (NECO) in the US.
Led by Charlotte Bishop from Oxford Archaeology and Suzie Westall from Balfour Beatty, the team delivered an interactive presentation to a class of seven and eight-year-olds. Pupils first donned their hard hats and high vis before learning more about what archaeology is, what archaeologists do (and wear), what they find, and how a recent dig as part of the Hinkley Connection project uncovered a whole Roman town.
Our team worked with local residents and councillors to remove more than ten large bags of rubbish from environmentally sensitive rhynes, surrounding fields and roadside ditches in Mark, Somerset.
The work also cleaned up several footpaths and ecologically important hedgerows, improving quality of life while helping the village remain attractive to ramblers and safe for local animals, including birds, bats and rabbits.
Every state school within the six local authorities impacted by the Hinkley Connection Project can apply for a £500 or £1250 grant for every year of the project.
In four years, National Grid has awarded 1,241 grants to local schools to help them buy STEM equipment
The funding has supported 64,807 local children with special educational needs and those from challenging backgrounds, giving them access STEM subjects and the necessary equipment to enhance their learning and development.