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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.
New East Coast Cluster could decarbonise up to half of the UK’s industrial cluster emissions
The East Coast Cluster would capture, transport and store CO2 emissions across the Humber and Teesside regions – which together account for nearly 50% of all UK industrial cluster emissions – as well as delivering an average of 25,000 jobs per year in the area up to 2050.
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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.
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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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Green collar jobs: Joseph Harvey – the apprentice who switched from marine to g…
Joseph Harvey's interest in net zero was sparked during his higher apprenticeship. Here he tells us about his ‘green collar job’, how he’s representing National Grid as a future leader on sustainability and his literally cool outdoors hobby.
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Revisiting our Olympic Park tunnels ahead of the Tokyo Olympics
With the Tokyo 2020 Olympics kicking off this week, we’re celebrating our own Herculean projects that took place a little closer to home; the construction of two colossal tunnels to provide power to the London 2012 Olympic games.
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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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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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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
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.