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It looks likely today will be the first working day in Britain without coal power since the industrial revolution!
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💡 Four-year-old Lucy’s special interest is National Grid’s electric towers!
📲 After seeing mum Sophie’s viral video about Lucy’s journey with autism and passion for pylons, our team absolutely had to reach out and give Lucy the opportunity to get up close and personal at our
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🥇THE WIND RECORD HAS BEEN BROKEN AGAIN!
🌬 Yesterday saw 21,620 MW of
#CleanEnergy
generated by
#Wind
- beating the previous best, recorded only 12 days ago!
Join us on the journey to
#NetZero
by downloading the free
#WhenToPlugIn
#app
today 📲
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For the first time since the 1880s the UK electricity network has clocked up over 72 hours without the need for coal generation. This new record comes days after the first ever 48 hour period of no coal on the network.
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🏅RECORD BROKEN 🏅
Britain has a new record minimum carbon intensity for electricity generation - with Tuesday reaching a new low of 27 gCO2/kWh, edging out the previous record set in April!
Join us on the journey to
#NetZero
by downloading the free
#WhenToPlugIn
#app
today 📲
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For the second time since the 1880s the UK electricity network has operated for 24 hours without the need for coal generation. We are expecting some coal to return to the system soon though, so last year’s record should still stand.
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🏅RECORDS BROKEN 🏅
🌬 The record for max wind generation has been toppled again - with
#ZeroCarbon
generation also peaking at 87.2% for the first time 😲
Join us on the journey to
#NetZero
by downloading the free
#WhenToPlugIn
#app
today 📲
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For the past 24 hours National Grid has supplied Great Britain's electricity without the need for coal generation as part of the energy mix.
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🎯 The UK has hit a major milestone - one TRILLION kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity generated from
#RenewableEnergy
sources
🌬☀🌊=⚡
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Yesterday was the first woman’s football match where National Grid has seen a TV pickup at half time as people switch on kettles
#Lionesses
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1/2 National gas demand today is high and due to the extreme weather conditions, there have been gas supply losses overnight. At 5.45am this morning we issued a ‘Gas Deficit Warning’ to the market.
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⚡ The
#Supergrid
: Britain’s high voltage transmission network. First switched on 70 years ago, this network of pylons and cables has powered the country ever since, helping to drive socioeconomic progress and enabling reliable access to
#electricity
for the nation.
🤔 Find out
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🎥😲 This is the moment our overhead line team showed
#GuyMartin
the ropes – literally!
💡 We lifted the lid on the Grid, showing Guy how it all works for his new
@Channel4
mini-series Guy Martin’s Great British Power Trip.
📺 Tune in from Sunday 12 for three weekly episodes.
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⚡️🔋 National Grid’s Littlebrook 400kV substation in Dartford, Kent is fully energised!
The new, state-of-the art facility is enabling the transmission of 2GW of low carbon and renewable energy from interconnectors and offshore wind farms off the coast of Kent to power around
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📹 The moment the last 💎-shaped insulator was fitted in North
#Somerset
, marking the completion of all 116 iconic new T-pylons!
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No coal generation on our system since 10.30pm yesterday. Previous record without coal is just over 25 hours, still looks like there’s a good chance this could be beaten.
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⏩ During His Majesty King Charles's time on the throne, he will oversee the largest overhaul of the UK’s electricity grid in generations 💡
#Coronation
#CoronationWeekend
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Watch our 174-tonne supergrid transformer make its journey through Bridgwater! 🤩
🐘 Measuring 8.8 meters and weighing the same as 30 African elephants, the transformer has made its way from Rotterdam to its new home at the substation
This major upgrade, part of the Hinkley
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Engineers in our control centre have logged a new wind power record in the UK with generation at around 10,000 MW – over 20% of demand
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Yes, Britain's biggest hydrodam will technically be in Norway. How is that possible? We're laying the world's longest subsea cable from Britain to Norway so we can share excess renewable power. Check out where this interconnector is being built in the video
#GreenerGrid
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2/2 This is an indication to the market that we’d like more gas to be made available to ensure the safe and reliable operation of the national gas network. We are in communication with industry partners and are closely monitoring the situation.
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Thursday 🌞
Friday 🌞
Saturday 🌞
Sunday 🌞
Monday 🌞
Tuesday 🌞
Wednesday 🌞
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Today we’re launching a £50 million package, helping organisations working on the front line of the energy crisis provide support to those who need it most:
- Increasing the number of support staff giving advice
- Providing fuel vouchers
- Improving the energy efficiency of homes
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It’s looking like today could be the second day when since the 1880s when the UK goes for 24 hours without the need for coal generation.
We will know for sure tonight.
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📍 This week, our
#HinkleyConnection
Project team were delighted to host two very special guests! Zak Martin and his mum
@MartiniMarie
, as part of Zak’s packed programme of
#workexperience
visits.
Zak, who is autistic, has been fascinated by pylons since he was 4 years old 💡
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Here's hoping for a fair wind behind our two latest transformer movements. One going from Tilbury Docks to our substation at West Weybridge, the other from Ellesmere Port in Cheshire to Willenhall in the West Midlands.
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🍃🏆 2023 was THE GREENEST YEAR ON RECORD for electricity generation in Britain!
⏬ Fossil fuels fell to under a third of the generation mix, while...
⏫
#RenewableEnergy
continues to break records!
🎯 We're only expecting to keep breaking
#CleanEnergy
records going forward 👇
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Here’s an exclusive 'behind the scenes' of one of our National Grid control room teams working round the clock in
#Isolation
over the Easter Bank Holiday to ensure at this critical time of national crisis, power continues to reach UK’s homes / hospitals,
#hiddenheroes
#energy
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📣We've fully wired up all 116 of our Hinkley Connection Project's T-pylons!
With each structure supporting 12 conductors, it means we've installed enough overhead line to stretch from Bridgwater to Paris! 🤩🙌
It's a proud moment for the team and our contractors Balfour Beatty
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📢 🤩 We’re delighted to share that our Eastern Green Link 1 (EGL1) project, a joint venture between National Grid Electricity Transmission and
@SPEnergyNetwork
, has today become the first critical energy project to proceed under
@ofgem
's new Accelerated Strategic Transmission
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🤔 Who keeps the National Grid running over the holidays? 🎄
🎥⬇ Meet Otis, who works in our Transmission Network Control Centre (TNCC). He's one of many of our operational staff working festive shifts to ensure the power stays flowing throughout our network 🏡🎅
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📺 You’re watching our team replace the main supporting leg of an
#ElectricityTransmission
tower, while the circuits above the damaged leg remain live.
🔎 After identifying an issue during a routine line inspection, expert crews developed a unique temporary leg support system.
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⚡ Our latest grid connection has now been energised, electrifying a significant part of
@transport_wales
' historic Core Valleys line and heralding faster, greener
#trains
🚄💚
🎯 The energisation marks a key milestone in the
@WelshGovernment
plans to better connect the
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💪 Moving a new 100-tonne supergrid transformer through central London’s streets? All in a ☀ and🌛's work for our expert teams and delivery partner
@_Allelys
!
The transformer is being installed in one of our substations 📍
📲 Read more about the work we’re doing this Winter 👇
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Happy 1st Birthday Nemo! Our 80 mile interconnector between 🇬🇧 🇧🇪 is celebrating a great year in operation, achieving an outstanding 96% availability. We think that’s cake worthy! 🎂🍾Read more here.
#nemolink
#renewables
#interconnectors
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Graeme Cooper, Head of Future Markets
@nationalgriduk
, talks to
@FT
on the
#EV
transition & how rapid growth of renewable energy, early planning of power distribution upgrades & digitised demand management systems should enable a green transport revolution
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Congratulations
@England
on reaching the
#Semifinals
of the
#WorldCup
! At half time electricity demand jumped by 1000 megawatts and 1400 megawatts at full time!
#ENGSWE
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We are predicting an increase in electricity demand of 1,500MW following tomorrow's
#RoyalWedding
as viewers get up to boil kettles and open their fridges for a cold drink 1/2
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We’re excited to be working with
@wessexarch
@PHdockyard
in retrieving a 1943 Fairey Barracuda Torpedo Bomber from the seabed of Portsmouth coast.
#DDay75
#IFA2
#nationalgrid
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We are currently at 72 hours and counting of no coal generation on the power network - a new record. This period began on 21/04/2018 10:00 BST. The previous record was last week at 55 hours and was from 16/04/2018 22:25 BST to 19/04/2018 05:20 BST.
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Last week we celebrated the 40th birthday of one of the longest serving power stations on the transmission network 🎂
In 1984, King Charles officially opened the newly commissioned pumped storage station which connects into our 400kV Dinorwig substation - both are located within
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A moment of gravity – in more ways than one ⏬❗
📹 The final pylon of our
#PeakDistrict
East Visual Impact Provision (VIP) project was taken down
🎓 Learn more about the project on our website:
#Engineering
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🎥🤩 We recently welcomed YouTuber
@tomscott
to our Eakring Training Centre for his final video!
Tom has been to some unusual places. But he’d never been to the top of one of our 22,000 electricity transmission towers – until now.
More info:
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🤝🔗 Viking Link: the groundbreaking project linking the UK and Denmark with the world's longest subsea and land interconnector!
Spanning 475 miles, or the height of over 70,000 double decker buses, it's a game-changer for the future of clean energy.
💡 Powering progress:
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The ‘Gas Deficit Warning’ issued yesterday was withdrawn at 4.45am this morning and we are currently not expecting to issue another today. The market has continued to respond over the last 24 hours and we have seen an increase of supplies into the network. (1/3)
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We’re super excited to be
@UKHouseofLords
today for
@DBBurt
&
@Bryworthington
to present our regionalised carbon intensity forecast
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🔌 We’ve connected Sosteneo Infrastructure Partners’ 100MWh
#battery
project to the
#electricity
transmission network at our Richborough substation in Kent.
🔋 Developed by
@pacificgreen_
, the battery is now live and supporting Britain’s
#cleanenergy
transition, storing and
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Gary, that explains the 600MW surge in ⚡️we saw at half-time then! OOOFT indeed!
OOOFT! Over 21 million of you watched the
@BBCSport
coverage of England v Tunisia. 18.3m peak on your televisions and more than 3m on
@BBCiPlayer
. Bloody Nora.
357
865
12K
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💪 We're strengthening 170km of overhead power lines on our transmission network between Lincolnshire and Hertfordshire.
✅ Our engineers have been working at heights of 50m to install 2919km of overhead line conductor
✅ 3 out of 4 north-south circuits have been refurbished,
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🧮 One trillion kWh is approximately enough to power UK homes for 12 years, based on average annual consumption.
📈 While it has taken 50 years to reach the milestone, based on current projections it will take just over five years to reach the next trillionth kWh ⏩😲
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We’re kicking off work on our new
#HyltonCastle
substation! Once energised, it will provide a grid connection for developments on Sunderland's IAMP ⚡️
Before starting work, we had to divert a 1km stretch of pylons around the park – no mean feat, but one that our teams delivered
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🧵🌌 This
#StarWarsDay
, we thought we’d start by harnessing the power of our own star ☀⚡
📍 Larks Green, the UK’s first solar farm to feed into the high-voltage transmission network, has now been connected to our network via the Iron Acton substation near Bristol🔌
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Mary, National Grid's massive 510 tonne tunnel boring machine, is now halfway underneath the River Humber on the East coast. Once finished, it will house a pipe carrying up to 20% of the gas Britain needs.
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We’re thrilled to announce that construction will start
on the UK's first subsea cable to Denmark next summer. Viking Link contracts announced today:
@EnerginetDK
#VikingLink
#GreenerGrid
🇬🇧🇩🇰⚡️
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@OVOEnergy
There are no words for how beautiful checkpoint one is, can we get some love for the turbines?
#EVrally
#CP1
@rally_ev
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💡 Our latest
#interconnector
project Viking Link will share
#CleanEnergy
between 🇬🇧↔️🇩🇰
🗓 2022 finished with the final land cable installation on the UK side, meaning we're on track for completion Dec 2023 🎉
Watch on to learn more 👇👀
@EnerginetDK
#Engineering
#NetZero
Prysmian Group is proud to present Viking Link, the first high voltage cable connection between the UK and Denmark. With the entire 1,250 km cable for the submarine route and all of the 135 km of land cables on the UK side, Viking Link becomes the world’s longest land.
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A 90-tonne electricity transformer is being delivered to a
@nationalgriduk
substation in
#Oxford
this weekend. It's essential to the delivery of £41 million
@ESOxford
investment into battery storage
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National Grid Ventures has just announced a new zero carbon partnership with
@Draxnews
and
@Equinor_UK
. This could lead to the Humber becoming the world’s first net zero carbon region and home to a new world leading hydrogen economy. Read more here
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🌟 Over 200
#cleanenergy
projects, totalling 7.8GW – more than double the output of Hinkley Point C nuclear power station – have had their connection offer dates brought forward by up to 10 years! 🙌
💡 The acceleration has been delivered through a programme called ‘Technical
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This is what we are expecting demand to look like as we tune in to tonight's
#EUreferendum
coverage
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'Mary’ our tunnel boring machine has just completed her 18-month journey digging a tunnel to replace a gas pipeline 30 metres beneath the River Humber.
#engineering
#riverhumber
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💪 Over the last two weekends, with the help of our expert teams and our delivery partners
@CollettLtd
we delivered two giant supergrid transformers to the new Biggleswade substation.
💡 Did you know…
- Transformers help to change the voltage of electricity so that it can be
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👏 A fantastic achievement for
@sees_ai
and an important step in enabling us to fully exploit the potential of
#drone
#technology
for inspecting our transmission network.
⏩ Embracing tech like this is helping us to deliver a clean, fair, and affordable energy system 🤝
✅We’ve granted
@sees_ai
with permission to fly drones Beyond the Visual Line of Sight.
This is a significant step forward for
#drone
technology and how we safely incorporate drones into the airspace.
This is a major part of our work to support UK innovation.
@nationalgrid
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😲 Here is the
@AFRSTemple
crew, conducting a simulated rescue drill.
🚒 Rescue teams sometimes use our deenergised pylons to proactively prepare for
#emergency
situations, helping keep our people and network safe.
Amazing to see their team at work! 👏
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🌌 This past weekend, the remarkable phenomenon known as the Northern Lights was visible from numerous locations across the UK!
🤩 We are pleased to share this stunning photograph taken by Neil Dobson from Kent, which beautifully captures the aurora behind transmission lines.
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🤝 We've partnered with nine different North Sea countries to develop a report with the Offshore TSO Collaboration (OTC) group
The paper demonstrates our progress towards the ambitious goal of 300GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030
It also shares a deeper dive into the
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What do you do when you can’t get a vessel through a narrow river to lay the world’s longest subsea cable? Simple, you transport the materials piece by piece to build a custom-made platform the size of 2 tennis courts, weighing 2 Boeing 757s
#Northsealink
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7
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🚂🚃full🚃steam🚃ahead!🚃
🛠 Vintage engineering meets new innovation 🤝
🗓 The first new pylon design in 100 years salutes the iconic
#FlyingScotsman
, as it travels through Somerset for the famous locomotive’s centenary 💯
#FlyingScotsman100
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We receive a lot of questions about how your energy bills are made up, and what role National Grid plays.
Let’s talk about how energy gets from producers to your home, and where we fit in the process 🎥👇
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Welcome to a new era of clean power 🌱 This year more of Britain's electricity is being generated from
#zerocarbon
sources than fossil fuels for the first time since the Industrial Revolution. This milestone is happening now, discover more:
#GreenerGrid
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13
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💡⏩ We’re accelerating the connection of up to 20GW of clean energy projects across our UK
#ElectricityTransmission
and
#ElectricityDistribution
networks, as part of
@NationalGridESO
's five-point plan and ongoing collaborative work with
@energynetworks
and wider industry. 👇
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💡 Today,
@Ofgem
has announced a major change to the way the
#ElectricityTransmission
connections queue is managed.
⏩ The new policy allows non-viable or stalled projects to be removed from the queue, accelerating the process for viable projects.
Learn more on our website 👇
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How long does it take to tunnel under the River Humber? Watch this short clip to find out the answer and more. We’ve just completed boring a tunnel that will house the pipeline responsible for up to 25% of Britain’s gas supply.
#engineering
#riverhumber
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2/2 This is a situation we are prepared for & a Deficit Warning is part of our toolkit in extreme weather to make sure we balance gas supply & demand. Protecting customer supplies is our 1st priority & we would like to reassure people that their domestic gas will not be affected
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We’re embarking on the UK’s largest-ever electricity transmission project, Eastern Green Link 2, as a joint venture with
@SSETransmission
.
🔌 525kV, 2GW high voltage direct current subsea transmission cable
🏴 🏴 436km long from Peterhead in Scotland to Drax in England
🍃
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✨💡 What an electrifying moment it was at our Viking Link ceremonial switch on event!
👏 We are excited to be fostering international collaboration and celebrating our recordbreaking subsea interconnector. Viking Link will play a vital role in achieving net zero targets,
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🤝 We welcome Keir Starmer’s speech on the importance of energy networks in making Britain a
#cleanenergy
superpower.
🗣 This morning’s speech highlighted the need to reform the planning system and the connections process, helping tackle some of the biggest barriers to
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Ready to roll - a new transformer to help keep the lights on across Derbyshire and beyond is heading to Willington substation today.
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Fintan Slye, Director of UK System Operator for
@nationalgriduk
: "We are entering a new world of energy. The expected growth of low carbon & decentralised generation means the electricity system will need to change."
#FutureofEnergy
#FES2018
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🚁 Ready to take to the skies?
@GuyMartinRacing
obviously is!
Join Guy to learn more about how our
#helicopter
units work to inspect and maintain the network ⚡➡🏡
📺 Tune in this Sunday for the final part of his
@Channel4
mini-series Guy Martin’s Great British Power Trip ⚡
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Thanks,
#ENG
. It was an electrifying performance. 1400MW pick up or 460,000 kettles on at half time. Now to grab a beer or a brew for the big post-match analysis.
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🧵🔎 We’re seeking supply chain partners to help deliver
#TheGreatGridUpgrade
, the largest overhaul of the grid in generations.
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🎄 Last week, we asked some of our people in the UK who are working over the
#festive
period, to talk about the work they'll be doing over the weekend.
This year, Steve worked a 12-hour shift on
#Christmas
Day, keeping power flowing throughout the high voltage network ⚡⏩🏡
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We’re fast-tracking grid connections by upgrading 82km of overhead line between Bramley in Hampshire and Melksham in Wiltshire, one year ahead of schedule.
🌡 Replacing the wires between pylons will allow them to operate at a higher temperature and carry more electricity
🍃 The
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We're supporting girls and young women into
#STEM
, to take on the
#NetZero
challenge 🛠💡
👷♀️ To celebrate
#IDG2023
, we collaborated with
@PlanUK
to put Precious in the shoes of our UK
#ElectricityTransmission
business president Alice Delahunty for
#GirlsTakeover
!
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⚡️The UK’s first high-capacity east coast cable project, Eastern Green Link 1 (EGL1), will connect East Lothian, Scotland to Hawthorn Pit in County Durham. 🏴🇬🇧
In partnership with
@SPEnergyNetwork
Electricity Transmission, suppliers have been appointed:
🔌
@PrysmianUK
will
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🌟 Dive into our electrifying new series, Behind the Grid!
Join James Stewart on a thrilling journey from sea to shore as we unveil the secrets of the UK's electricity system.
Discover how giant undersea cables like BritNed are shaping the future of
#cleanenergy
sharing.
⚡️
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❄ A frosty morning 📸 from our overhead line team!
Our crews are out keeping the network running, whatever the weather 👷♀️👷♂️🤝☔
🎓 Find out how we're taking care of the energy systems, plus explore our
#winter
tips and advice:
#Engineering
#Photography
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