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The Grid

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  • The grid unlocked: how does a greener power network actually work?

    The UK’s electricity ‘supergrid’ was built in the 1950s – designed for a different era that was reliant on fossil fuels. Here we explore why in an increasingly connected and electrified world, it needs a radical upgrade
  • Illustration depicting renewable energy pathway from solar and wind power to urban buildings

    From Amazon to Meta: how the world’s biggest companies are securing supplies of low-carbon energy

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    The net benefits of net zero: why there’s more to renewables than tackling the climate crisis

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    How AI is transforming the electricity grid – and why robot dogs could have a role to play

  • Collage featuring hydro, renewables, light, and digital technology elements.

    From Edison to AI: how the electricity grid was born – and where it’s headed

  • Collage of Iberdrola energy storage technologies including solar, batteries, and pumped hydro systems

    The race to store clean energy

  • An electricity pylon of the National Grid in Wales

    From pylons to plug sockets: what makes up the UK’s electricity grid?

  • wind turbine in rural setting at dawn

    Upgrading the grid: the great energy transition in numbers

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  • The Network of Change: meet the people behind the grid upgrade – video

    Upgrading the electricity grid is essential if we want to safeguard our energy future. This is the story of the people making that happen – the project manager, craftsperson and cable technician who retrained from other industries to be part of the greatest transformation Britain’s electricity grid has ever seen
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