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National Grid

July 2024

  • A row of pylons

    The great pylon pile-on: can councils’ opposition scupper Labour’s ‘clean power’ revolution?

    The energy secretary’s plans to install thousands of pylons in unspoiled rural areas is facing a huge backlash
  • A yellow electric Renault 5

    Sceptics say EVs will overwhelm the grid. In fact, they could be part of the solution

    Electric vehicles are ‘batteries on wheels’ that can put energy back into the National Grid when solar panels and windfarms do not provide much power
  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Houses and pylons: Labour’s biggest business challenges

    Nils Pratley
    The party’s targets of building 1.5m homes over five years and decarbonising the electricity grid by 2030 look a stretch

June 2024

  • Fiona Gilmore

    Take an area of outstanding beauty in Britain, cover it in concrete and steel: how can we allow that?

    Fiona Gilmore
  • Simon Jenkins

    Come 5 July, an almighty fight looms. Keir Starmer, take on the countryside at your peril

    Simon Jenkins

May 2024

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Forget Thames Water, National Grid has proved investors will still back UK assets

    Nils Pratley
  • towering electricity pylons stretch across a green field amid a blue sky

    National Grid taps shareholders to help fund £60bn low-carbon energy switch

April 2024

  • Turbines at an offshore windfarm

    Share of electricity generated by fossil fuels in Great Britain drops to record low

  • A 3D rendering of dark solar panels and wind turbines alongside a modular battery energy storage system

    Battery life
    Salt, air and bricks: could this be the future of energy storage?

March 2024

  • Man walks dog down snowy sidewalk

    Wintry weather blankets New England and California as thousands lose power

  • Wind power turbines and electricity pylons

    £58bn plan to rewire Great Britain expected to spark tensions along route

  • Aerial photograph Llyn Peris, Electric Mountain and Slate quarry, Llanberis, Snowdonia<br>EGFP1T Aerial photograph Llyn Peris, Electric Mountain and Slate quarry, Llanberis, Snowdonia

    The Audio Long Read
    Electric mountain: the power station that shows the beauty of infrastructure – podcast

  • A half completed new home, surrounded by scaffolding and with no tiles yet on the roof, on a building site

    Capacity crunch on National Grid is delaying new homes in UK by years

February 2024

  • Construction at Hinkley Point C

    UK power plants lined up to command record high energy prices this decade

    Stations secure all-time high price of £65 a kW per year for 2027-28 in ‘capacity market’ auction

December 2023

  • Gedney Marsh windfarm, Lincolnshire, England.

    Wind turbines generate more than half of UK’s electricity due to Storm Pia

  • A member of the public walk pasts wind turbines operated by Scottish Power Renewables.

    Subsea project to bring renewable power from Scotland to England awarded £1.8bn

November 2023

  • dramatic wide angle photo of a double line of pylons going across countryside against a blue sky, shot from low down

    Labour vows to ‘rewire Britain’ as pylon plans spark row in Tory party

  • A man loads his washing machine

    UK energy bills: could doing your washing at night save you cash?

  • The sun rises behind electricity pylons and a sub station in Manchester

    National Grid increases investment plan but warns of clean energy logjam

  • Elidir Fawr in north Wales, inside of which sits Dinorwig power station, AKA Electric Mountain.

    The long read
    Electric mountain: the power station that shows the beauty of infrastructure

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