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Strategic Infrastructure :The Great Grid Upgrade

Application for development consent accepted for Bramford to Twinstead Reinforcement

16 January 2024

National Grid is pleased to announce that it has had its application for development consent for the Bramford to Twinstead Reinforcement accepted by the Planning Inspectorate.

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Ventures :Press release

Anglo-Saxon cemetery discovered in Lincolnshire to appear on BBC’s Digging for Britain tomorrow

8 January 2024

Archaeological discoveries from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, found underground in rural Lincolnshire, will appear on TV tomorrow evening, Tuesday 9 January 2024, as part of BBC’s latest instalment of Digging for Britain.

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Ventures :Press release

National Grid announces commercial operations of Viking Link – the world’s longest land and subsea interconnector

29 December 2023

The world’s longest land and subsea interconnector started commercial operations today (29th December 2023).

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Group :News Press release

Our love is electric – research reveals UK obsession with all things electric

28 December 2023

It’s official, we Brits are addicted to electrical gadgets. New research from National Grid has found that two thirds of respondents spend five hours or more with their gadgets on Christmas Day and Boxing Day and 36% confessed that they bought at least one electrical gadget in the Black Friday sales this year. You could call it love, after all there are 20 songs with the word electric in the title and 100’s featuring power.

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ET :Press release

Richborough Energy Park battery connects to grid on site of former coal plant

21 December 2023

National Grid has connected a 100MW battery project to the electricity transmission network at its Richborough substation.

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ET :Press release

National Grid fast-tracks overhead line upgrade project to help accelerate connection dates of 175 clean energy projects

15 December 2023

National Grid has accelerated engineering works to address a bottleneck in connecting low carbon projects to the electricity network in South West England and Wales.

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