#National Grid

The transformer forms part of a high voltage electricity network upgrade in the area.

The Hylton Castle substation will provide a new grid connection for Nissan, AESC UK and Sunderland City Council’s EV36Zero electric vehicle hub at the site.

The company will supply nine transformers with capacities of 275 to 400 kV to five substations operated by National Grid by October 2027.

The transformer is classified as an abnormal indivisible load and needs to be delivered on a specialist vehicle under police escort and at low speed.

The funds will “unlock economic growth and enable the increasingly digital, electrified and decarbonised economies of the future” and support 55000 more jobs.

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.