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-visibility clothing 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.
The original car park was made from loose stone chippings. Heavy use over the past few decades and throughout the pandemic had taken its toll, meaning that the car park required more maintenance than was planned for. This was impacting the charity’s finances, which were already under pressure due to Covid-related cancellations to a number of bookings – a main source of income.
The transformer will be transported on a very large specialist vehicle (65m in length, roughly equivalent to 3 canal boats), travelling at a maximum speed of 20mph.
Leaving the A38 at the B4065 junction, the transporter will approach Feckenham from Droitwich Spa along Hanbury Road/Salt Way (B4090). It is expected that the transformer will be delivered to Feckenham by approximately 6.30pm
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.