Globally, peatlands store approximately double the amount of carbon that is stored in all the world’s forests, an estimated 550 billion tonnes.* In fact, they store twice as much carbon as all the forests in the world put together.
Chris Plester, Sustainability Specialist at National Grid tells us more about the project:
Whilst acquiring land to build a new substation for the connection of green energy production from the upland windfarms of the South Wales Valleys, National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET), owner of the high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales also inherited and invested £120K in the restoration of the ancient peat bog on the Hirwaun Industrial Estate Peat Bog.
Each year, Winscombe closes its main road for one evening to allow residents to safely enjoy late-night shopping and support local businesses. The local company that volunteered its time in past years, to put out diversion routes and man the closures on the night, were unable to help this year. Winscombe and Sandford Parish Council approached the Hinkley Connection Team, who gladly offered its support.
In November I was lucky enough to attend COP26 on behalf of National Grid. It was billed as the "last-chance saloon" for world leaders to keep global temperature rises to no more than 1.5C above preindustrial levels.
The pact that was agreed in Glasgow is historic in that it is the first from any COP to mention fossil fuels, but post-summit, early forecasts are placing the likely temperature pathway of commitments between 1.8C and 2.4C.
Since 1948, the Watchfield Village Hall Trust has overseen the management and maintenance of the village hall for the benefit of local people. Drivers speeding on the local road network around the community hub pose a risk to the safety of residents and road users.
The Town of Hempstead’s existing hydrogen facility was developed in 2009 to provide locally produced green hydrogen for vehicles. This project was a national success in demonstrating decarbonized transportation.
In conjunction with the Town of Hempstead, we will now expand the project to blend hydrogen for heating homes and transportation at the same time.
Children are planting their very own Christmas legacy after National Grid donated almost 400 trees to mark the end of its latest phase of refurbishment work on a major overhead powerline that runs through Penwortham, near Preston.
A mixture of mature trees and seedling Christmas trees have been distributed to local schools, conservation organisations, a golf course and hospice.
On Monday 29 November, Hinkley Connection Project Director, James Goode and CSR Officer Jonathan Richardson joined the celebrations for the big switch on. Individuals nominated by local people for making a significant contribution to supporting the community did the honours and lit up the town.
The event, which attracted thousands of people, is run by local volunteers and is a highlight of the festive season in the area. Last year’s was sadly cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions.
Following months of hard work, the project has reached a major milestone, as the engineering team have taken delivery of two new transformers.
The transformers arrived during November and were delivered via an access road off Kettering Road built to ensure construction traffic avoids the areas of Market Harborough and Braybrooke. Weighing an impressive 100 tonnes, they will now be installed at the substation over the coming months.
The change forms part of our ambition to reduce our SF6 emissions by 50% by 2030; by eliminating nearly 6 tonnes of SF6 emissions – the equivalent of taking more than 100,000 cars off the road – and removing all SF6 gas from electricity assets by 2050.
