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First seven members join NG’s Great Grid Partnership

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National Grid has announced seven core supply chain partners that will support the first stages of the Great Grid Upgrade to help power the UK’s energy transition.

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The ‘enterprise model’ adopted by National Grid will see the organisation working with two design and consenting service partners: an AECOM-Arup joint venture, and WSP. Five construction firms will round out the Great Grid Partnership: Laing O’Rourke; Morgan Sindall Infrastructure; Morrison Energy Services; Murphy; and Omexom/Taylor Woodrow (OTW).

According to National Grid, the partnership has been formed in response to a supply chain and skills shortage across the relevant sectors. Driven by a target of connecting 50GW of offshore wind by 2030, the first part of the Great Grid Upgrade involves an initial nine Accelerated Strategic Transmission Investment (ASTI) projects. The Great Grid Partnership is National Grid’s answer to the enormity of the challenge, described by the company as ‘the largest overhaul of the electricity grid in decades’.

“The scale and pace of this upgrade requires us to unite as an industry and to think and act differently,” said Carl Trowell, president, Strategic Infrastructure, National Grid.

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