National skills roadmap ‘key to catalysing grid reform’
According to UK engineering consultancy Egis, the success of the government’s vision for a clean energy future hinges on its ability to address the growing skills gap. This follows the news that ‘shovel-ready’ wind and solar farms will be prioritised for grid connections, a move that replaces the longstanding first-come, first-served approach, which has led […]
UK Power Networks harnesses the sun’s energy
UK Power Networks is harnessing the sun’s energy to supply a third of the electricity on its West Suffolk site. UK Power Networks owns and runs the cables and substations which deliver electricity from the National Grid to 8.5 million homes and businesses across the East, London and the South East of England, serving approximately […]
Balfour Beatty awarded network reinforcement contract
Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has been awarded a £363 million contract by National Grid to deliver the Bramford to Twinstead Reinforcement project. The contract has been awarded through National Grid’s RIIO-2 framework. On completion, the project will reinforce the electricity network in East Anglia and ensure that it can continue to reliably and […]
Macclesfield FC announce sponsorship deal to cut energy costs
Macclesfield FC has announced a three-year partnership with Powerdown220, with the aim of reducing the club’s energy costs and lowering their carbon footprint to help the club become more eco-friendly. The technology reduces a site’s electrical consumption by up to 12% by lowering the voltage supplied by the National Grid and allowing clients to power […]
Develop and National Grid to deliver bespoke training programme
Develop Training has partnered with National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) to deliver a highly successful, bespoke training programme centred around modern managerial skills. Following the results of a recent internal survey, NGED saw the need to equip their managers with the necessary skills to be leaders of the future. In recognising the need to work alongside […]
Balfour Beatty awarded £42m Little Horsted substation contract
Balfour Beatty has announced that it has been awarded a £42 million contract by National Grid to construct the Little Horsted substation grid supply point (GSP) in east Sussex. The two-year contract will see Balfour Beatty design and build a new 400kV substation as well as two new terminal towers which will support electrical conductors […]
National Grid announces cash incentive to use less electricity
The National Grid is set to deploy its emergency scheme for the first time, with hundreds of thousands of households set to be paid to use less electricity to avoid a nation-wide blackout. This comes as Britain’s cold temperatures and soaring energy demand continue to exacerbate fears of a supply shortage, with the national power […]
BGEN celebrates record year following rebrand
BGEN is celebrating a record year following the company’s rebrand and has outlined ambitious targets for the year ahead. In the last financial year, turnover increased by more than 50% to £191m and the company has also reported a significant increase in operating profits. “We’ve had an excellent year across the board, with significant growth […]
Flex appeal: Octopus Energy customers join second Saving Session
Hundreds of thousands of Octopus Energy customers participated in its second energy reduction session whilst helping balance the grid, preliminary results have revealed. The new Saving Sessions scheme is enabled by National Grid ESO’s new Demand Flexibility Service which allows households to get paid for shifting their energy usage out of peak times. Over 200,000 […]
Octopus Energy customers provide 108MW of grid flexibility
Octopus Energy has released the preliminary results from its first ever ‘Saving Session’, a new energy reduction scheme that allows households to get paid for shifting their energy usage out of peak times. Octopus invited all of its 1.4 million electric smart meter customers to join the revolutionary new scheme, which runs from November to […]