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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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🔌 We've just connected @TagEnergy1's new 100MW/200MWh storage facility to the grid in North Yorkshire, making it the UK’s largest transmission connected battery. Battery storage, or battery energy storage systems, are devices that allow energy from renewables, like solar and
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Happy to announce we have received final approval for the Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) project, a 525kV 2GW subsea connection between Scotland and England. With @ofgem's approval on costs, construction will begin later this year, targeting completion by 2029. ⚡️. Jointly delivered
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🔌 A first of its kind battery storage solution is being connected to Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm. 🔋 By co-locating assets like this, excess wind power can be stored and used when needed. @OrstedUK @Orsted @neso_energy @energygovuk
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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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A fire at our North Hyde substation in West London has damaged equipment, leading to a loss of power supply in the area. We are working at speed to restore power supplies as quickly as possible. We are working alongside the DNO for the area, SSEN, to reconnect affected domestic.
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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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Two 178-tonne supergrid transformers making their way through East Sussex to our Little Horsted substation 👇. Escorted at a steady 12 mph thanks to @_Allelys, these transformers are now in place and will deliver futureproofed energy security for the region. #CleanEnergy
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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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🎉 We’re celebrating a major milestone on our Hinkley Connection Project, with the construction of all 143 pylons now complete!. 🤯 116 new T-pylons from Bridgwater to Portbury and 27 traditional lattice pylons in Avonmouth now feature on the 57km route, along with 8.5km of
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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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⏩ 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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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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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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We’re sorry for the disruption caused by a fire at our North Hyde substation and for the loss of power supplies in the area. Teams have been working around the clock to restore power as soon as possible. Working in partnership with the local network operator SSEN Distribution,.
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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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📍 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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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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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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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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📸 Take a look at the delivery of our new 400/275kV transformer to West Weybridge substation!. Escorted through London during the night by @_Allelys, this transformer delivery is helping to modernise substation equipment by replacing an asset that reached its end of service life.
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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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🤔 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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📣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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📺 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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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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Power supplies have been restored to all customers connected to our North Hyde substation, including Heathrow, allowing operations to resume at the airport. We are now implementing measures to help further improve the resilience levels of our network. We are deeply sorry for the.
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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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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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💪 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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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 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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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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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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A fire at North Hyde substation in West London has damaged equipment, leading to a loss of power supply in the area. We are working at speed to restore power supplies as quickly as possible and will provide an update as soon as we can.
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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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🤝🔗 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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We’re super excited to be @UKHouseofLords today for @DBBurt & @Bryworthington to present our regionalised carbon intensity forecast
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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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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 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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"The pylons and cables that shift electricity from new plants to households and businesses have become the forgotten part of the green transition." . There is an urgent need for transmission lines to be deployed much faster. Helpful summary in the @FT:
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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.
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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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🧵🌌 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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🧮 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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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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@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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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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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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💡 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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Not something you see every day 👀🚨. Our 175-tonne supergrid transformer was kept under safe supervision by @SurreyPolice as it was moved by heavy load specialists @_Allelys to our West Weybridge substation over the weekend 🦾. The new transformer will replace one that’s
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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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'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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This is what we are expecting demand to look like as we tune in to tonight's #EUreferendum coverage
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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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🎓✨ A-level results are in - what’s next? If you’re still weighing up options, you’re not alone!. Just last year, Matthew Craker, now a Higher Apprentice at National Grid, was in the same position. Unsure about university, Matthew found his path through an apprenticeship, where
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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 178-tonne supergrid transformer making its way through London to our Bengeworth Road substation 👇. Delivered by @_Allelys at a steady pace under police escort, this infrastructure will be the first of two transformers at the substation helping power to the capital, with the
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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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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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🚂🚃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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Construction now underway on Eastern Green Link 1 ⚡. The subsea superhighway will transport green electricity for two million homes along over 190km of predominantly undersea cable, linking the south-east of Scotland with the north-east of England. The £2.5bn project was given
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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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👏 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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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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💡 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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Have you seen the plug for the charger? . We've got your future energy needs covered 🔌⚡️ . #TheGreatGridUpgrade will connect the nation's electricity grid to cleaner, more affordable sources of energy. For more info visit:
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