Engineering innovation

To achieve a cleaner energy future, the EU and the UK need to work closely together on the energy transition. We share similar strategic climate targets and our markets have been built together for decades as part of the Internal Energy Market.

National Grid is due to start tunnelling for its £1 billion flagship project to rewire South London – vital works for London’s electricity supply that will allow us to keep the lights on well into the future.

Interconnectors are high-voltage under-sea cables. They’re the international clean energy super-highways; crossing borders to enable energy produced from renewables to flow back and forth between GB and neighbouring countries.

Dynamic charging could be the future for emissions-free driving. Innovation Engineer Mingyu Sun leads a pioneering project in our Innovation team, exploring the potential to charge EVs as they drive by installing electric layers beneath our road systems.

Engineers transform ideas into reality. They’ve shaped our past and present and will design how our future works and looks.

We looked at the questions you wanted answered about interconnectors and asked our experts to bust the most common myths about these giant undersea electricity cables.

How National Grid Partners is bringing an entrepreneurial mindset on board.

From a dramatically reduced carbon footprint concrete to renewable heat pump networks, our Innovation team is focusing its academic skills, engineering experience and problem-solving curiosity on building a clean energy future for us all.