AECOM joint venture to deliver the UK National Grid’s Great Grid Upgrade
08 Maggio 2024 - 12:55PM
Business Wire
AECOM (NYSE: ACM), the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting
firm, today announced that its joint venture with Arup has been
appointed as a design and consenting service partner for the UK
National Grid’s Great Grid Partnership. The Partnership is expected
to deliver a design and construction program to connect clean
energy to homes and businesses throughout England and Wales by
2030, playing a critical role in the UK’s energy transition. It
forms part of a £9bn supply chain framework which will also support
infrastructure projects beyond 2030.
“We’re excited to work with National Grid and our partners to
shape the energy transition in England and Wales through the
delivery of modern, stable, and flexible grid infrastructure,” said
Colin Wood, chief executive of AECOM’s Europe and India region.
“Our unrivalled enterprise capabilities enable our teams to draw on
a deep, global bench of expertise in grid design, positioning us to
not only execute on National Grid’s ambitious objectives but to
also meet the unprecedented demand for grid improvements in the
region.”
Through nine projects that sit within the Accelerated Strategic
Transmission Investment (ASTI) framework, this major grid
modernization program will deliver five times more electricity
infrastructure over the next six years than has been constructed
over the past 30 years. It will see planned renewable energy
facilities, including wind farms in the North Sea, benefitting from
improved infrastructure to the backbone of the UK’s power system
and enabling the transition to net zero, which will ultimately lead
to cheaper energy and less reliance on fossil fuels.
“As one of the world’s top environmental and sustainability
consulting firms, our teams play a defining role in both designing
and delivering the solutions that are advancing the global energy
transition,” said Frank Sweet, chief executive of AECOM’s global
Environment business. “This latest program for National Grid
bolsters our position as a trusted advisor for our many long-term
clients as they lead the shift to more sustainable energy
sources.”
The joint venture’s scope of work will include delivering the
consents for individual schemes within the program. These consents
will be through Development Consent Orders (DCOs), which entail
technical and environmental design and preparation, as well as
stakeholder engagement on the plans.
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