£3.5m investment in Salford power lines
Engineers from the region’s network operator are replacing 4.2km of overhead power lines and seven pylons between Kearsley and Agecroft.
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£3.8m network boost for Western Isles
The project included establishing a second 33 kilovolt (kV) electricity circuit stretching almost 30 kilometres from Drimore to Pollachar to provide greater resilience, reducing the load on the existing line and providing another route to quickly re-connect customers’ power supplies in the event of a fault on the existing circuit.
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£1.5m investment in South Wales power network
WPD has installed over 16km of 11kV electricity cable and communication infrastructure across a large area of the town to bring power to a new critical care hospital as part of its network investment.
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£12.3m invested in South East Wales’ gas network
The work involved upgrading over 95 kilometres of old metal pipes to new long-lasting plastic pipes and upgrading more than 7,000 individual service pipes that supply homes and businesses.
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£15m Cairngorms undergrounding project seeks public votes
SSEN is investing over £15m to underground 90km of overhead distribution lines in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, National Parks and National Scenic Areas in the north of Scotland and central southern England.
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£15m funding could see hydrogen trialled on gas network
The money, which has been awarded via Ofgem’s Network Innovation Competition (NIC), will fund two field trials on public gas networks, blending hydrogen with natural gas to heat around 750 homes in each of the year-long trials. By funding level, this is this is the largest gas NIC project ever.
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£1bn ‘energy superhighway’ gets royal opening
National Grid has recently flicked the switch to energise over 200km of high voltage electricity cables carried inside a network of 32km of tunnels as part of a seven-year project to rewire the capital.
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£1m Innovate UK grant for new low-loss cable
Eland Cables – a global supplier of power, data, control and instrumentation cables and cable accessories, has announced its role in a £1 million Innovate UK grant-funded project to deliver pioneering new cable technology.
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£2.1m power boost in Sutton
The £2.1 million project will increase the reliability of the electricity network for local customers by replacing some existing cables which are due for renewal between Sutton and Beddington.
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“We’re having joint conversations, but behind on 2050”
Where do you think the value of awards schemes lies? What works well about awards is that they enable the sector to showcase and talk about the more innovative things that are happening – we need these conversations, but there are limited opportunities for them. We need cross-sector conversations, and for these to be in a place that’s supporting positive action and positive solutions. Often, when we have those conversations, it’s more in the problem space.
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