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Discover, explore and experience stories from the heart of the energy industry.
Energy is changing. Meet the people driving this transformation, discover the tech and engineering solutions helping us to deliver a cleaner energy system and explore what the future might look like.
Why interconnectors play an essential role in our net zero future
Interconnectors are high-voltage under-sea cables. They’re the international clean energy super-highways; stretching for hundreds of miles to enable energy produced from renewables to flow back and forth between Great Britain and neighbouring countries.
Interconnectors and our net zero future
Working smarter to get to net zero
How we get to net zero is a question on everyone’s minds. To achieve this, we need to transfer more renewable power to our customers. Here we take a look at how we are using transformational technology to unlock significant network capacity.
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Electrifying our fleet to help tackle climate change
Transport makes up 23% of energy-related carbon emissions globally and businesses have a critical role to play in leading by example and encouraging an uptake of EVs within their own fleet. We’re doing this by joining the EV100 initiative.
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Engineering innovation
32.5 km tunnelling project under London begins
National Grid is due to start tunnelling for its £1 billion flagship project to rewire South London – vital works for London’s electricity supply that will allow us to keep the lights on well into the future.
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Community spirit
We’ve joined the Valuable 500 – because disability is our business
Diversity of thought, backgrounds and perspectives is critical to achieving our ambitions, generally and for net zero. We’ve taken a further step with this by joining the Valuable 500 – a global movement putting disability on the business agenda.
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New offshore wind joint venture partnership
With huge growth potential for the sector, National Grid Ventures is stepping up its offshore wind activity in the U.S., via a significant new partnership with RWE Renewables.
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Grid at work
4 things about National Grid’s role in our renewable energy future
In the run-up to the eagerly anticipated global climate change summit COP26, UK Executive Director Nicola Shaw and US President Badar Khan explain what we’re doing to tackle climate change now and in the future.
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Energy Explained
Everything you ever wanted to know about electricity pylons
Electricity pylons (or towers) have been part of the British landscape for almost 100 years, but how much do you really know about them? Here we bring you 12 facts you never knew about these iconic steel structures.
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The future of transport: driving change in the next 10 years
This next decade transport will be revolutionised with radical new inventions powered by renewable energy, in response to the twin concerns of pollution and congestion.
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Excited to be a Principal Partner for COP26
The biggest climate summit the UK has ever held, COP26 will host all the countries signed up to the UN’s treaty to combat climate change. National Grid is driving more ambitious change towards a clean energy future.
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Energy explained
Ever wondered what net zero means? Want to know how windfarms make energy? Or how electricity and gas gets to you? Here we answer all your energy questions.