National Grid has launched the next phase of its Electricity Transmission Partnership (ETP), appointing five delivery partners to carry out major overhead line upgrades across England and Wales.
An initial £1.2bn of reconductoring projects covering over 1,000km of routes have been allocated to Balfour Beatty, M Group, Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, Murphy and OTW, through a partnership model which transforms how National Grid works with its supply chain.
Reconductoring involves upgrading e