Ro, who is Director of Customer Connections at National Grid, was given the award for services to the Electricity System, Energy Security and Decarbonisation. Ro, who holds a first-class degree in Electrical Engineering from University College Dublin, joined National Grid as a graduate in 2004 and has held a variety of roles; including Head of National Control at the Electricity System Operator, leading the control room responsible for keeping the lights on in Great Britain.
National Grid donated 27 hampers to parish councils along the route of the 57km Hinkley Connection Project including Kenn, Puxton and Tickenham. The hampers, filled with locally sourced coffee, chutney, cheese, champagne and other treats, were raffled off or offered as prizes during the Jubilee celebrations and helped to raise over £1,000 for local causes.
The football club’s main playing area has a ditch running along its length, to manage water runoff during high rainfall. However, members of the club have become concerned about players from the junior section becoming exposed to its risks during winter periods and so started looking into plans to install new fencing to improve safety at the ground.
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.