Engineering innovation stories

Engineers make a difference every day. Meet Alex Cooke, whose childhood inspired him to take up engineering and who is now helping to create a cleaner, greener energy system for the future.

Coming from an engineering family meant that Louise Guthrie was destined to become an engineer. Now she’s working on her own legacy – helping to solve carbon emissions to build a cleaner future.

Engineers transform ideas into reality. They’ve shaped our past and present and will design how our future works and looks. Here some of National Grid’s senior leadership team choose the engineering innovations they believe have had a positive impact on our world to date and explain why.

National Grid Partners is all about investing in a smarter energy future, with artificial intelligence (AI) playing a central role. Read how the two latest additions to our portfolio use AI to protect infrastructure and create more reliable networks.

Building a new gas pipeline under the River Humber has been no small task, involving 5km of pipes and 16 Olympic swimming pools’ worth of water. Now close to completion, the team has just finished another vital stage, breaking a world record on the way.

Building the world’s longest undersea cable, to allow the UK to share zero carbon energy with Norway, has brought some challenges. Read more about how we engineered smart solutions to deal with tough terrain and fishing lakes.