Energy superhub among connections at National Grid’s innovative new ‘grid park’
UK: National Grid is to debut an innovative new way to connect customers to the HV network next year when it energises its first ‘grid park’ in Bedfordshire.
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UK: National Grid is to debut an innovative new way to connect customers to the HV network next year when it energises its first ‘grid park’ in Bedfordshire.
The new grid park will connect three separate customers to the same new supergrid transformer which is being installed at a new 33 kV substation on the site of the existing 400 kV Sundon substation.
EDF Renewables UK will be one of the first connections at the new Sundon grid park, which will see a 50 MW battery connect to the grid as part of its nationwide Energy Superhub rollout.
The grid park connection design is efficient and cost-effective, allowing three smaller customers to benefit from a single investment, minimising the need for outages and having less impact on the local network in the area.
Longer term, the design also has the potential to help speed up renewable power connections to the transmission network as it’s rolled out across the country – boosting efforts to meet the country’s ambitious decarbonisation goals.
“Our first grid park build is an exciting development, a proof of concept for a new way to connect low carbon generation in an innovative and cost-efficient way in the future – all of which bring benefits to consumers locally and nationally. Making new connections to the transmission system is a complex process and our new grid park design is no different – we still have to manage the build and any planned outages, and ensure impact on regional networks and local communities alike is minimised,” said Mark Beasley, the project’s director at National Grid.
Source: National Grid
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