At my school there was never any sense that science was only for boys. On reflection, I was lucky – I attended a diverse, inner-city comprehensive school in Coventry, where I was taught by inspiring teachers who encouraged us all to get excited about science.
Wayne Jackson, Senior Operations Engineer
Wayne works in the West 1 Area, covering Gas Operations and Maintenance at sites from Carlisle to Stoke. He’s managed eight apprentices since 2008.
The Utility Week Awards celebrate and reward the hard work and commitment of everyone in the utilities industry. This year’s ceremony, on Monday 8 February, was a virtual celebration of companies, teams and individuals keeping the country’s essential services running through the challenges of 2020.
We’ve invited local schools to create time capsules, which will be placed inside one of the 116 new T-pylons – the first ever to feature on National Grid’s network.
We want to hear how children see their future and capture their dreams and aspirations to share with future generations.
Developing and training young talent through apprenticeship programmes is critical to building the workforce the UK needs to deliver on its climate change ambitions. This month we welcomed 63 new apprentices in our latest intake, helping them embark on a career that will contribute to a clean energy future.
Subject to receiving planning consent, before we are able to remove the pylons up to 12 separate cables may need to installed underground.
These will have to be spaced apart for good heat dissipation. This means that we may require a construction working area around 60m wide. This area will include a temporary ‘haul road’ down which HGVs can pass to deliver the cables on large drums alongside the sub soil and topsoil mounds.
The new cables would be buried just below deep ploughing depth (about 1.2m).
If you look out to the North Sea from the UK’s East Coast, you’ll see line upon line of these immense white wind turbines.
You can discover more about the technology used to harness the wind’s energy by reading our article on how wind turbines work.
For every parent who heard the news that schools won’t be opening before March with a heavy heart, we hope these fact-filled topics will lighten the load a little.
Exciting plans to remove up to 12 pylons and around 4.5km of overhead electricity line near Roundway Hill and the Millennium White Horse in Devizes are about to be brought to life through a new interactive 360° virtual tour.
The scheme will see electricity cables going underground to significantly enhance the landscape and views north of Devizes as part of National Grid’s Visual Impact Provision (VIP) project*, which is a national programme to reduce the visual impact of existing high voltage power lines in selected areas across England and Wales.