Ofgem has proposed a £3.4bn funding package and fast tracked Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2), the offshore electricity interconnector cable between Scotland and England.
EGL2 is an “electricity superhighway” connecting Peterhead in Scotland with Drax in England with 525kV, 2GW high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cable. Project promoters National Grid…
An expanded offshore grid and new North-to-South onshore electrical spine in Great Britain have been proposed by the Electricity Systems Operator (ESO) in its £58bn investment plan for the UK's power system to achieve the 2035 decarbonisation goal.
The ESO is responsible for operating the electricity system from a control room…
National Grid innovations to improve cable health monitoring, decarbonise rural communities and utilise electric plant in streetworks have won nearly £400,000 funding from the latest stage of the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF).
These funds will allow the projects to progress to feasibility studies as part of SIF’s discovery phase aimed…
The £400M National Grid project to upgrade and reinforce Yorkshire’s power network has been green lit by secretary of state for energy security and net zero, Claire Coutinho.
The Yorkshire Green Energy Enablement (Green) application has been granted its development consent order (DCO) following submission of the application to the planning…
Powerlines needed to drive the UK’s transition to net zero carbon will have to be built in unpopular places, but the government hopes it can minimise the disruption, a minister has said.
Jerome Mayhew, MP for Broadland in Norfolk, is a campaigner against a new pylon route through his county to…
The UK had 13.9GW of offshore wind capacity in 2022 and 10GW of projects are under construction, but National Grid, the electricity system operator, estimates that over 100GW could be required to reach net zero by 2050. Installing more offshore wind turbines to meet this capacity is only part of…
National Grid has chosen key sites for a major new power line under the North Sea. The energy distribution body announced the landfall, cable route and convertor station locations for the proposed LionLink connection to the Netherlands. Ministers revealed plans last year to create the world's largest multi-point power line…
Bam-Hitachi Energy joint venture has been appointed by National Grid Energy Transmission (NGET) and SSEN Transmission to build the converter stations for the £2.1bn Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) offshore interconnector between Scotland and England.
EGL2 is an “electricity superhighway” connecting Peterhead in Scotland with Drax in England with 525kV, 2GW…
Overhead power lines will remain as the standard method for transmission of electricity, despite calls for more undergrounding, the government has confirmed.
Discussion about the electricity transmission network has moved up the agenda over recent years because of the role that electrification is already playing in the UK’s attempts to decarbonise…
Our industry is accustomed to working at scale. We deal with huge networks and facilities across countless sectors and specialisms that, despite often being made up of a million small things, add up to something gigantic.
That means it is almost startling when any part of the infrastructure ecosystem is faced…
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