{"id":108102,"date":"2026-08-21T11:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/108102\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:25:07","slug":"national-grid-reach-cabling-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/108102\/","title":{"rendered":"National Grid reach cabling milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.energylivenews.com\/2026\/07\/10\/national-grid-seeks-community-input-on-30m-fund-linked-to-norwich-to-tilbury-project\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.energylivenews.com\/2026\/07\/10\/national-grid-seeks-community-input-on-30m-fund-linked-to-norwich-to-tilbury-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">National Grid<\/a> has reached\u00a0the halfway point in the construction of a new 2.2km high-voltage electricity cable tunnel\u00a0between Essex and Kent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far, the Tilbury to Gravesend tunnel boring machine (TBM) has progressed more than 1.1km\u00a0beneath the River Thames.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since tunnelling began in May, more than 40,000\u00a0tonnes\u00a0of material have been\u00a0excavated\u00a0and over 5,100 pre-cast concrete tunnel segments have been installed to form the tunnel lining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mark Farmer, Project Director at National Grid, said:\u00a0\u201cReaching\u00a0the halfway point of tunnelling beneath the River Thames\u00a0is an important moment\u00a0for the Grain to Tilbury project and\u00a0is a testament to the\u00a0expertise and collaboration of teams across National Grid and our partners.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe\u00a0progress\u00a0made so far reflects the dedication of everyone involved\u00a0and moves us a step closer to\u00a0delivering\u00a0infrastructure that will help strengthen the electricity network and support Britain\u2019s future energy needs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the company\u2019s Great Grid Upgrade, the project is designed to strengthen the electricity network and support the continued connection of secure,\u00a0cleaner\u00a0and home-grown sources of energy  across the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This construction is replacing\u00a0the existing Thames Cable Tunnel, which has been in service since the late 1960s and is\u00a0approaching\u00a0the end of its operational life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 Energy Live News LtdELN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Grid has reached\u00a0the halfway point in the construction of a new 2.2km high-voltage electricity cable tunnel\u00a0between Essex&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21249],"tags":[2580,9679],"class_list":["post-108102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-national-grid","tag-national-grid","tag-river-thames"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117133254479247758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}