National Grid granted £1.5m Ofgem funding to accelerate towards net zero
Summary
These projects, led by National Grid’s innovation teams, are part of the group’s work enabling a cleaner energy system – facilitating a fully decarbonised and flexible electricity grid through connecting increased levels of renewable power, and enabling the decarbonisation of gas through investing in a range of solutions like renewable natural gas and blending hydrogen in our network. As a team in Gas Transmission, we really embraced the SIF process and submitted a number of well-rounded project proposals that are central to overcoming this challenge. These will all help demonstrate how we will transition from the National Transmission System of today to the gas network of the future.” Alexander Yanushkevich, National Grid Electricity Transmission’s Innovation Manager said: “These ambitious, innovative projects have the potential to shape the future electricity network, accelerating the transition to net zero at the same time as delivering significant benefits to consumers. The Discovery is the first phase of a three-phase SIF competition grant focused on a solution feasibility study to identify challenges and benefits to end consumers. National Grid Electricity Transmission has received Discovery phrase funding for three projects: • None Sustainable Electrical Gas Insulated Lines (SEGIL) project will investigate a feasibility of a SF6 free Gas Insulated Line (GIL) solution to provide cost competitive, high-capacity transmission connections over 2000MVA to increase available network capacity for new offshore wind generation.