A story spanning from Newcastle-under-Lyme to Northumberlandia — It’s not often that piles of homeless rock and soil make a difference to your career, especially when you’ve moved companies in the interim. There is also a lesson in how even the most innocuous comment can make such a difference. Environmental Operations Advisor Darren Watson shares his experiences of…

How the two can live in harmony — Alice Green spent two weeks doing Work Experience with the Sustainability team. Here, she shares her reflections on a visit to our Environmental Education Centres. The most commonly asked question at Bishops Wood Environmental Education Centre is “why on earth is there a substation on the nature reserve?” And certainly…

Ambergate, next to our Gas Pipeline Maintenance Centre in Derbyshire, sits within 77 hectares of National Grid owned land. Part of this is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), with a variety of grassland fungi that is of international importance. National Grid has been working in partnership with…

National Grid publishes the 2016 Electricity Ten Year Statement (ETYS) on 30 November 2016. The ETYS presents our view, based on the Future Energy Scenarios (FES), of future transmission infrastructure requirements. Future changes that will potentially require transmission development New nuclear plants and high volumes of renewables — connecting towards…

Why the UK honey bee needs corporate champions and what National Grid is doing to help — Bees are estimated to contribute £651m to the UK economy per year, through their pollination services. Much of the food, such as 85% of the UK’s apple crop, relies on wild bees and managed honeybees to grow. We’ve recently seen a severe decline in bee populations however, as they are…

National Grid included in CDP’s Climate ‘A List’ for disclosure and action Each year thousands of companies submit their climate disclosures to CDP for independent assessment. The disclosure system is used by investors to highlight the companies that are taking a proactive approach to climate change management. Last week CDP…

How can companies with landholdings benefit from and share the value of the natural resources they own? — Nature provides us with things that are essential for businesses to function. Such as: regulating the global climate, giving us clean air and providing food and water sources. The value of this ‘natural capital’ is estimated to be £95 trillion per year worldwide, and is thought to be declining by…

Help spread this important safety message by joining our thunderclap campaign. It is every parent’s worst nightmare to be told that their child has died, particularly when you realise that such a tragedy could have been avoided if basic safety measures had been in place. A lot of young people…

There are five priority areas of focus, as Andrew Burgess, Associate Partner, Energy Systems at Ofgem explains. — The way Britain generates and uses electricity is rapidly changing. We could save on investment if we had a more flexible electricity system. More flexibility can encourage customers to use electricity outside peak times and can help increase consumption when it’s needed. …