London's electricity network has been boosted with an annual £600 million investment from UK Power Networks.

The company has completed major works which are enabling redevelopment of the Greenwich Peninsula, Nine Elms, Kidbrooke and White City, plus flagship projects such as Crossrail, the Thames Tideway tunnel and HS2.

This forms part of its £1.6 billion investment in London from 2015 to 2023.

Since the beginning of its investment, UK Power Networks has developed a number of new electricity sub stations.

Director of Connections Mark Adolphus said: "We work with developers, land owners and local authorities to ensure they have the power they need to progress their plans, which ultimately delivers economic growth for all.

-- Advertisement --

"In the first six months of 2018 we commissioned five main substations to boost the capacity of the London network – that's the most investment we've seen since the 1960s. That includes three main electricity substations within three kilometres of each other; Black Wall Way and Greenwich are catering for infrastructure developments. The third is Crossrail Limmo which is fully funded by our customer. This new infrastructure is the result of a lot of hard work from employees across our business and it represents a huge growth in our network capacity."

The total power capacity being installed in London is around 540 MW- which is equivalent to powering 270,000 new homes. New substations providing extra power capacity and built since 2017 include Greenwich Peninsula, Camden and Whitechapel.

Other projects under construction to power further development in areas of London and facilitate more infrastructure projects, include new substations at Nine Elms, White City, Willesden and Silvertown.

UK Power Networks adds tens of thousands of new connections to its networks every year, runs 30,000 kilometres of high voltage cables under the streets of London, and is developing a smart grid to support changing energy needs.

(CM/JG)