The session brought together Electrical Level 2 students, who worked to strengthen and refine their CVs while gaining practical advice on entering the construction, engineering and infrastructure sectors.
Students arrived with draft CVs, giving National Grid staff the chance to offer direct, one-to-one feedback. Colleagues shared practical tips on how to highlight transferable skills, improve personal statements and present qualifications and experience clearly to employers.
Together, the organisations donated 200 Easter eggs to community groups across Hackney, helping to spread some seasonal cheer as part of National Grid’s ongoing commitment to supporting communities along the North London Reinforcement project route.
Bringing together employers, training providers and community organisations from across Haringey, the event created a welcoming environment for people to learn more about pathways into work and build confidence in their next steps.
Delivered in partnership with the London Borough of Haringey’s employment team and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the initiative formed part of National Grid’s wider commitment to supporting local skills, education and employment opportunities through the North London Reinforcement project.
Working alongside organisations including Taylor Wimpey, Aston Group, Vistry and Wates, National Grid staff met with more than 142 students studying electrical installation, plumbing, carpentry, brickwork, engineering and construction management.
This includes restoring the land to the condition that it was in before the project began.
Over the next few months, you’ll see us removing the temporary haul road used by construction vehicles to travel across the site.
Our teams are working with specialist contractors, landowners and local farmers to carefully reinstate the subsoil and topsoil.
National Grid has reached a major milestone in the Humber region after achieving planning consent for the new Birkhill Wood substation from East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
The substation will enable National Grid to connect 4.22GW of home-grown energy to the network from three new wind farms in the North Sea – enough energy to power more than 4 million homes.
Enthusiastic Key Stage 2 pupils at Bishops Cannings Primary School and St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School in Devizes took part in the interactive STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) sessions.
These were focused on bringing electricity and circuits to life and providing a first-hand explanation about National Grid’s work across England and Wales.
Equipped with buzzers, bulbs and crocodile clips, the pupils got stuck in to building their own mini circuits and even became part of the experiment themselves by linking hands to power an ‘energy stick’.
National Grid and Keen AI have secured Alpha-phase funding from the Strategic Innovation Fund, an Ofgem programme managed in partnership with Innovate UK, to develop Foundational Shared Model Operations (FoSMo), Britain’s first collaborative AI system for asset management across the electricity network.
FoSMo is a shared AI model that standardises how electricity network operators collect, analyse and act on visual data from their physical assets.