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C2I 2021 Energy & Environment Winner: Growing the grid

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Rerouting power transmission at bottlenecks in the UK grid has helped free up

1.5GW of capacity and save £380m. Andrew Wade reports. 

Like most power networks around the world, the UK’s electricity grid was not built with renewables in mind. As large, centralised thermal generation from fossil fuels and legacy nuclear plants is phased out, increasing amounts of distributed and intermittent renewables are coming online, posing challenges for transmission across the grid.

Category: Energy & Environment

Winner: Working smarter to get to net zero

Partners: National Grid Electricity Transmission with Smart Wires and Omexom

Category Sponsor: BAE Systems

Major changes will undoubtedly be required over the coming years to fully adapt the network to these challenges, but solutions are already in place that are helping to alleviate bottlenecks and free up huge amounts of capacity on the existing network. The winning entry in our Energy & Environment category is one such solution.

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