#National Grid

The line will connect the UK and the Netherlands with offshore wind farms, providing clean energy, and help reduce household bills.

National Grid is working with Smart Wires on an innovation project to make better use of grid enhancing technologies such as advanced power flow controllers.

The Partnership forms part of a £9 billion supply chain framework which will also support infrastructure projects beyond 2030.

Viking Link is National Grid’s 6th interconnector, and the UK’s 9th.

The facility will help to reduce the use of sulphur hexafluoride (SF6), used in the electrical industry to prevent short circuits and to keep the network safe and reliable.

Each transformer was 9 m long, 5.4 m wide and 5 m in height.

The company is set to construct or rebuild more than 1000 miles of transmission lines and 45 substations.

The investment would help UK meet its growing power demand.

Two large supergrid transformer deliveries will be made to the new Biggleswade substation on 11 and 18 February 2024.

UK, Wales: National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) is planning to build a new 400 kV substation in Wales.

The world’s longest land and subsea interconnector started commercial operations on 29th December 2023.

Richborough Energy Park battery is now connected and energised on the electricity transmission network.

National Grid has accelerated engineering works to address a bottleneck in connecting low carbon projects to the electricity network in southwest England and Wales.

UK: EGL1 will see the creation of a 525 kV, 2 GW HVDC subsea transmission cable from Torness in East Lothian, Scotland to Hawthorn Pit in County Durham, England.

National Grid is refurbishing 170 km of overhead power line between Lincolnshire and Hertfordshire, among other projects, as part of its £1 billion annual infrastructure investment.

Plans for a new 100 km subsea electricity link between Orkney and the Scottish mainland have progressed after a high voltage cables supplier was chosen for the project.

National Grid is accelerating the connection of up to 20GW of clean energy projects to its electricity transmission and distribution networks in England and Wales.

A battery storage facility which will hold enough electricity to power more than 100,000 homes for two hours has officially gone live in Sandwell.

National Grid and SP Energy Networks to deliver new HVDC subsea transmission link from East Lothian in Scotland to County Durham in England.

National Grid has submitted its Electric Sector Modernization Plan (ESMP) to the Grid Modernization Advisory Council (GMAC).

The final cable test has been completed for National Grid’s Viking Link interconnector, which is set to join UK with Denmark.

116 world-first T-pylons have been completed as part of the Hinkley Connection Project.

HVDC interconnection will enable power transmission and facilitate new renewable electricity generation, owing to UK’s largest electricity transmission project.

Laying of the Viking Link interconnector power cable between the UK and Denmark has been completed.

New National Grid connection enables TfW line electrification for faster and greener trains.

National Grid and SSEN Transmission agree on a joint venture for UK’s largest ever electricity transmission project.

Hitachi Energy partners with National Grid to eliminate SF6 from National Grid’s HV equipment.

UK, Bristol: The first PV solar array connected directly to the power transmission network in the UK was energised this week.