The Great Grid Upgrade is the largest overhaul of the electricity grid in generations. Our infrastructure projects across England and Wales are helping to connect more clean, affordable energy to your homes and businesses.
The Great Grid Upgrade comprises 17 major infrastructure projects that will both scale up the grid and update our existing networks. It will enable us to carry more clean, secure energy from where it’s generated – like out in the North Sea by wind turbines – to where you need it, boosting energy security and helping the nation become more self-sufficient.
Upgrading the grid today makes for a better tomorrow
Energy threads through everything we love to do; it lets us talk to friends, listen to music, travel to work, cook our meals and so much more. But the way we power our lives is changing.
As the UK moves away from fossil fuels and increases clean energy generation, we’ll all be using more electricity than ever before. This means we need to build new infrastructure, as well as upgrading the existing grid, to make sure this clean, green energy can be brought from where it’s generated to where it’s needed by homes and businesses.
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*National Grid and Oxford Economics May 2024. Economic contribution is based on gross value added (GVA)