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Press releases

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National Grid partners with Wessex Archaeology to support Lincolnshire schools

11 April 2024

National Grid has today launched a new STEM booklet ‘Alfie and the Archaeologist’, which will help school children learn about electricity, green energy and explain all about the world’s longest land and subsea HVDC interconnector, Viking Link.

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Opportunity for communities to have their say on National Grid proposals for Norwich to Tilbury project

10 April 2024

National Grid is encouraging communities in East Anglia to comment on proposals to upgrade the high voltage power network in England as part of a 10-week consultation process which runs between Wednesday 10 April and Tuesday 18 June.

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£400k for National Grid innovation projects as part of Ofgem fund to help shape Britain's net zero transition

18 March 2024

Three projects National Grid innovation projects have secured almost £400,000 as part of an Ofgem fund to help accelerate the net zero transition.

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Government gives National Grid’s Yorkshire GREEN project the green light

14 March 2024

Development consent has been granted for a new £400m green electricity project to upgrade the high-voltage power network in North Yorkshire. The project is part of The Great Grid Upgrade, the largest overhaul of the electricity grid in generations.

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Electricity networks collaborate to accelerate connection timescales in West London

13 March 2024

Electricity networks have collaborated on an innovative new technical solution to unlock electricity network capacity in parts of West London.

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National Grid announces shortlisted locations for LionLink interconnector

5 March 2024

National Grid announced today (Wednesday 6 March), its chosen landfall, cable route, and convertor station locations for its new green energy link to the Netherlands.

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