Electricity Alliances and Infrastructure Projects
What is the Electricity Alliance?
In March 2007 National Grid signed contracts, worth up to £2.5 billion over five years, to upgrade and develop the electricity transmission network across England and Wales.
This is the largest ever Alliance partnership for National Grid and represents a significant part of National Grid’s planned investment to maintain safe and secure supplies of energy to the UK.
These collaborative contracts will support planned work to connect new infrastructure, such as wind farms and other new generation plant, and replacement of existing assets to ensure the continued safe and reliable operation of the high voltage electricity network.
National Grid Executive Director for Transmission, Nick Winser, said: “We welcome the increasing diversity of energy sources across the UK. This significant investment demonstrates National Grid’s commitment to maintaining a robust transmission network. It will also help secure clean, affordable energy for the long term.”
We have adopted this collaborative way of working for electricity transmission, following the success of the gas distribution Alliance introduced in 2005.
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