Tag Archives: UK Power Networks

National Grid has launched a new 132kV substation in Barking, East London, aimed at enhancing electricity supply to local residents, businesses and rail services amid ongoing regeneration efforts in the area formerly occupied by a coal power station.

UK Power Networks (UKPN) delivered 160GWh of electricity from renewable sources to the UK electricity grid in the eastern region, London and the southeast by using new distribution management techniques.

Planning constraints, grid connections and the potential for community buy-in are among the key challenges and opportunities presented by the UK’s onshore wind sector, according to government and stakeholder representatives.

A total of £9.7M in funding has been awarded to projects under the latest round of Ofgem and Innovate UK’s strategic innovation fund (SIF), with National Grid and SSEN leading six of the initiatives.

UK Power Networks is investing £15M to upgrade and maintain electricity towers in the east and southeast of England, as well as the replacement of 10km of overhead power lines between towers.

Thames Water has announced two more of its wastewater treatment sites in south west London have been utilising technology to turn sewage sludge into electricity.

UK Power Networks has partnered with Barhale to build a micro-tunnel under the Grand Union Canal in West London to deliver power for High Speed 2 (HS2) tunnel boring machines (TBMs).

New cable circuits, re-routing of overhead power lines and the installation of new towers have been completed by UK Power Networks (UKPN) in a project which centred around the substation at Little Barford in Bedfordshire.

A new £11.5M grid substation is being installed next to an existing one near Heathfield in East Sussex and UK Power Networks (UKPN) has built an “enriched dormice habitat” to mitigate the impact of the development.

National Grid is transporting two 178t supergrid transformers from Tilbury Docks to its new Biggleswade substation near Dunton.