Farmers and lorry drivers on track for new safety pledge
The country’s biggest electricity distributor has launched a new initiative designed to save lives, by talking to people most at risk of coming into contact with overhead lines. UK Power Networks say the four groups with the highest number of safety incidents around overhead power lines during the past five years, have been road hauliers, […]
Hertfordshire to be boosted by £6 million electricity supply upgrade
More than 60,000 local homes, communities and businesses across Hertfordshire are set to benefit from a £6million electricity network upgrade. UK Power Networks, who distributes electricity across the East of England, is upgrading a major substation, which will future-proof safe and reliable electricity supplies for people in Hoddesdon, Broxbourne, Hertford and Ware. Electrical engineers are […]
Bermondsey boosted by £10m electricity upgrade
More than 70,000 homes and businesses are to benefit from an electricity infrastructure upgrade thanks to work from UK Power Networks. The firm that keeps power flowing across London, the South-East and East of England has begun work installing new electricity equipment that will help to ensure reliable power supplies for homes and businesses in […]
Great crested newts set to benefit from power company’s pond restoration
Land around an electricity substation at Ilketshall has been transformed for local wildlife after a pond was restored to allow Great Crested Newts to potentially breed there. UK Power Networks, which distributes electricity across the East of England, worked with Suffolk Wildlife Trust at the site near Beccles after identifying that it could revive the […]
Energy experts win major connection contract with Telford Homes in Beckton
UK Power Networks Services has announced that it has successfully won a contract with Telford Homes, one of London’s largest residential developers, to connect its new development in Beckton to the local electricity network. This is an exciting project for UK Power Networks Services, building on the experience of working with clients to deliver critical […]
Kingston boosted by £4.2m electricity supply upgrade
Thousands of residents in Kingston are benefiting from a £4.2m electricity network upgrade. UK Power Networks has completed a four-year project which will future proof a substation that helps to deliver safe and reliable electricity supplies to more than 73,000 local homes and businesses. Electrical engineers have installed four new pieces of equipment, known as […]
‘Game changing’ digital portal for green technology launched
UK Power Networks has launched a new online portal that is making it quicker and easier for installers to connect green, clean technologies to homes and businesses. Smart Connect will give many technology companies an instant decision on whether they can connect domestic electric vehicle charge points, heat pumps, battery storage or solar PV, to […]
Swans safer thanks to overhead bird diverters
Swans will be safer when they fly in to feed in a Cambridgeshire fenland field, thanks to bird diverters that have been installed on overhead power cables. Around 80 diverters have just been installed by UK Power Networks along 500 metres of power cable after several swans collided with the power line. Whooper swans fly […]
New frontiers in self-healing power systems to boost network reliability
Thousands of homes and businesses across the South East and East of England will have better power supplies thanks to the latest self-healing power systems. Britain’s biggest electricity network operator, UK Power Networks, is rolling out Primary Outage Restoration Tool (PORT) software, developed with GE Digital, which reconnects supplies faster via healthy alternative circuits following […]
Energy worker helps power the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out
An electricity worker has revealed the emotional connection which comes with giving people the COVID-19 vaccine as a volunteer. Jon Bray, 49, from Saxmundham, volunteers twice a week at the Sole Bay vaccination roll-out in Southwold, run by the Beccles medical centre. He has been given time to do so by his employer UK Power […]