Press releases

Partnering with UK universities on innovation projects to help deliver net zero

29 March 2022

National Grid Electricity Transmission has signed innovation partnerships with six universities across the UK that will help decarbonise the electricity system in Great Britain and accelerate progress towards net zero.

National Grid’s IFA2 interconnector saves more carbon in its first year than the total used to build it

28 March 2022

3 min read

National Grid’s IFA2 interconnector to France has paid off its carbon cost in less than a year.

Sale of majority interest in NGGT and Metering

27 March 2022

National Grid Gas Transmission

Wires in place on world’s first T-pylons

15 March 2022

3 min read

Wires to carry low carbon energy onto the UK electricity network have now been installed on 36 of the Hinkley Connection Project’s new T-pylons in a process known as ‘stringing’.

National Grid call out to industry to find low-carbon alternatives to back up diesel generators

14 March 2022

National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) has launched their first ‘Call for Innovation’ to businesses across the UK to find a new low carbon alternative to backup diesel generators

National Grid joins leading organisations to help create 100,000 hectares of healthy wetlands across the UK

4 March 2022

National Grid has joined a group of leading organisations to launch a new initiative working with the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) to help fight the climate, nature and wellbeing crisis by creating networks of healthy wetlands across the UK.