On site
Heat
Liverpool plugs in district heat for new science campus
A combined heat and power (CHP) energy centre buried below a 14 storey car park in Liverpool is set to become a key source of low carbon energy for a £1bn new life science campus.
Power
ENW buys electric diggers to dig the road to zero carbon
Electricity North West is turning its streetworks operations a darker shade of green by purchasing two innovative JCB electric mini diggers, following a successful trial period.
Technology & Operations
Cadent’s Tunnel Under the Thames project
A behind the scenes peak at how Cadent's flagship project The Tunnel Under the River Thames is progressing.
Technology & Operations
3.5 mile electricity cable tunnel installed in London
UK Power Networks, which owns and operates the London electricity network, built a tunnel for electricity cables in partnership with tunnelling specialists Murphy, in an extraordinary feat of engineering.
Heat
The automation age
How the growth of distributed generation is placing new demands on protection and control technologies
Power
Mobile Substations
A mobile substation can help during system maintenance and unplanned outages, or even help renewables developers connect their schemes to the network more quickly.
Heat
Great Scott! 1.21 gigawatts!
How NIE Networks connected record amounts of renewable distributed generation.
Gas
Mix it up
Cadent and Northern Gas Networks are pioneering the injection of hydrogen into the gas grid with the HyDeploy project. Here's the inside story.
Gas
Wasted resource – the future of energy from waste
Advanced Plasma Power and National Grid have joined forces to commercialise the decarbonising potential of energy from waste.
Gas
Big Bang; bringing safety to gas
At DNV GL’s Spadeadam site, gas engineers can feel the full force of the kind of gas disaster they hope they’ll never face.
Gas
On site with Enel: system control
Network visited Italian distribution system operator Enel in Milan to see the future of smart grid control.
Power
Power Networks Demonstration Centre: tried and tested technology
Network visited the Power Networks Demonstration Centre to find out about recent technologies to pass through its accelerated testing regimes.