{"id":31637,"date":"2025-08-02T08:50:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T15:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/national-grid-names-contractors-for-8bn-of-substation-work\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T08:50:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T15:50:46","slug":"national-grid-names-contractors-for-8bn-of-substation-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/national-grid-names-contractors-for-8bn-of-substation-work\/","title":{"rendered":"National Grid names contractors for \u00a38bn of substation work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-500199\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The new contracting approach under the Electricity Transmission Partnership (ETP) will see National Grid adopt a longer term collaborative approach that builds strong regional partnerships with contractors.<\/p>\n<p>Rgional exclusivity for new build or substation upgrade work will be awarded to ETP partners over the five years of the deal to March 2031.<\/p>\n<p>Regional delivery partners include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Balfour Beatty \u2013 North East region<\/li>\n<li>Morgan Sindall Infrastructure \u2013 North West region<\/li>\n<li>Murphy \u2013 South West (region one) and London &amp; South East region<\/li>\n<li>M Group Energy \u2013 South West (region two)<\/li>\n<li>OTW \u2013 Central West region<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An initial \u00a31.3bn worth of exclusive work will be awarded shortly giving partners first refusal of future substation work in their region.<\/p>\n<p>Two national partners, Linxon and Burns &amp; McDonnell, will support delivery of substation work that falls outside the scope of the regional partners\u2019 portfolios.<\/p>\n<p>The ETP model has the potential to be expanded beyond substations in future to include other network infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Alice Delahunty, president of National Grid Electricity Transmission, said: \u201cOur Electricity Transmission Partnership marks a bold shift in how we deliver vital electricity infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy adopting a regional, long term approach, we\u2019re giving our supply chain the certainty to invest in people, skills and innovation. It\u2019s a key step in turning our RIIO-T3 investment ambitions into action and building a resilient grid to support Britain\u2019s clean energy future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/userphoto\/3.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Prior\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"photo\">\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2025\/08\/01\/national-grid-names-contractors-for-8bn-of-substation-work\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The new contracting approach under the Electricity Transmission Partnership (ETP) will see National Grid adopt a longer term collaborative &#8230; <a title=\"National Grid names contractors for \u00a38bn of substation work\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/national-grid-names-contractors-for-8bn-of-substation-work\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about National Grid names contractors for \u00a38bn of substation work\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-enquirer","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}