National Grid launches consultation on £3bn Scotland-England power link

National Grid has launched a consultation on plans for a £3bn subsea electricity link between Scotland and England. The Stage 2 consultation for Eastern Green Link 5 (EGL5) opened on 29 May and will run until 24 July, giving communities the opportunity to comment on… The post National Grid launches consultation on £3bn Scotland-England power link appeared first on Construction News.

National Grid to replace wires on 40km route between East Dorset and Southampton

Wires will be replaced by Balfour Beatty on behalf of National Grid on a 40km section of the electricity transmission network, covering 115 pylons, between Mannington substation in East Dorset and Nursling substation in Southampton. The post National Grid to replace wires on 40km route between East Dorset and Southampton appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

National Grid DSO publishes Strategic Roadmap

National Grid Distribution System Operator (DSO) has published its new Strategic Roadmap, setting out how the organisation will deliver on commitments to customers and stakeholders during the remainder of RIIO-ED2, while “supporting the transition to a smarter, more flexible energy system”, it said. The post National Grid DSO publishes Strategic Roadmap appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

TBM starts on Thames power tunnel

A Herrenknecht tunnel boring machine has been lowered into the ground using a Weldex crawler crane, for Ferrovial Bemo JV, who are building a new power tunnel under the Thames for National Grid.

National Grid gets dynamic

National Grid will move ahead with adding dynamic line rating to 585km of transmission lines, after trialling the technology with LineVision.

Fully Charged Show - National Grid, 02052012

The National Grid is a high-voltage electric power transmission network, connecting power stations and 340+ substations ensuring supply and demand is in the balance. Nigel Williams speaks to Robert Llewellyn about how the National Grid works in Great Britain, and what challenges it faces with the rapidly changing world

BBC World Service - This plug socket can tell you how green your energy is, 21072022

Usually we don't know where the electricity we use comes from - is it being generated by wind or fossil fuels? But here's how a new smart socket could help tell us A small tech company in the UK has reinvented the humble electricity socket. This new smart socket tells you how much of your power could be coming from renewable energy. It can also save you money by spotting energy that's being wasted

TED Ed (Animation) - Can 100% renewable energy power the world? 07122017

Every year, the world uses 35 billion barrels of oil. This massive scale of fossil fuel dependence pollutes the earth, and it won’t last forever. On the other hand, we have abundant sun, water and wind, which are all renewable energy sources. So why don’t we exchange our fossil fuel dependence for an existence based only on renewables?

Tom Scott - Why Wind Farms Don't Always Turn When It's Windy, 20012014

Why, when it's windy are wind farms not always on and rotating? There are a couple of reasons which are explained in this short video

Tom Scott - Power, Politics and Pragmatism: The British National Grid, 15022016

Back in the 1920s, electricity was generated by hundreds of small companies in towns and cities across the country. They were all different and mostly incompatible: London alone had 24 voltages and 10 frequencies. How did we get from there to the billion-pound tunnel projects of today?