national grid
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Data Centers
UK’s National Grid Investing Billions for Substation Site to Power Data Centers
National Grid in the UK has begun construction of a new Uxbridge Moor substation complex in Buckinghamshire, a project designed to connect more than one dozen new data centers to the electricity provider’s network.
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T&D
Heathrow Airport Transformer Fire Prompts Urgent Inquiry, Exposes Cracks in Grid Resilience
One week after a catastrophic fire at the North Hyde electrical substation plunged the UK’s flagship Heathrow Airport into chaos, questions are mounting about what went wrong—and what the incident reveals about the vulnerabilities in Britain’s aging power infrastructure. A massive explosion and fire that erupted around 8:20 p.m., on Thursday, March 20, at the […]
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Legal & Regulatory
Importance of Rate Design in Moving Customers Toward Electrification
Home heating is approaching an impasse—there is great opportunity to decarbonize through heat pumps for both heating and cooling, but rising electricity rates might discourage consumers from getting on
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Hybrid Power
POWER Digest [April 2024]
GA Drilling, ZeroGeo Energy Collaborate on Deep Geothermal Power Project. Geothermal drilling technology company GA Drilling and ZeroGeo Energy GmbH in February announced the companies have a memorandum of
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History
National Grid’s Evolution: Branching Out from Deep Roots
Rooted in the birth of the UK’s energy industry, National Grid’s operations have traversed critical periods of the energy industry’s tumultuous history. While it is today one of the world’s largest
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Coal
UK Restarts Coal-Fired Units as Temperatures, Power Demand Rise
Temperatures in the UK recently soared into the high 80s, increasing demand for cooling across Britain and prompting energy company National Grid to call for a restart of a coal-fired power station. Uniper, the German-based energy group, on June 12 said National Grid called for Uniper’s Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power plant in Nottinghamshire to begin supplying […]
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Press Releases
Zenobē announces expansion to U.S. through collaboration with JERA Americas to develop battery storage projects
Dec. 16, 2022 — Zenobē, a leading EV fleet and battery storage specialist, has today announced it will join forces with JERA Americas, the U.S. subsidiary of JERA, the largest power generation company in Japan, to develop battery storage projects in New York and New England. The collaboration is a key milestone in securing clean […]
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Press Releases
National Grid and LineVision Deploy Largest Dynamic Line Rating Project in the United States
Latest project will Save Consumers Transmission Line Rebuild Costs and Reduce Curtailment of Renewable Energy Projects by 350MW, while expanding overall grid capacity SOMERVILLE, Mass., Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — National Grid, one of the largest investor-owned utilities in the world, and LineVision, the world’s only provider of non-contact overhead power line monitoring systems, announced today that LineVision’s sensors […]
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Press Releases
Smart Path Connect Transmission Project Gets Green Light from New York State Public Service Commission
WHITE PLAINS—The New York Power Authority and National Grid NY today announced the greenlighting of a critically important transmission line build in the North Country, known as Smart Path Connect. The New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) approved the 100-mile transmission line project at its regularly scheduled monthly meeting yesterday. The transmission line build […]
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Trends
Rhode Island Targets 100% Renewables Procurement by 2033
Legislation passed in Rhode Island will commit the state to procure 100% of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2033. If Gov. Daniel McKee, as expected, signs the bill into law, the Ocean State could have the nation’s fastest timeline for a 100% renewables procurement. The New England state’s legislature on June 17 approved […]
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