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Thousands benefit from £10.6m power upgrade between Worthing and Steyning


A £10.6 million electricity infrastructure upgrade has increased the resilience of electricity supplies for thousands of homes and businesses in Worthing and Steyning areas


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K Power Networks has completed work to install and energise a new electricity cable between the towns, replacing existing equipment. The cabling is part of the essential electricity network, which delivers power supplies to heat and light homes and businesses and power electric vehicles and heat pumps. The team used an existing underground electricity pipeline to carry the new cabling, minimising the need for roadworks along the majority of the 9.5km route. Excavations were made at intervals along the route to pull through and connect the cables. The route included parts of Steyning, the South Downs, Sompting and Worthing.


Bobby Suseela, capital programme manager at


UK Power Networks, said: “This investment has increased network resilience for homes and


businesses across the Steyning and Worthing areas using an existing cable pipeline to reduce the local impact. “The project will deliver long-term benefits for local residents, helping us maintain safe and reliable electricity supplies to these areas into the future.”


The cabling, which carries electricity between substations at 132,000-volts, supports the delivery of electricity supplies to approximately 95,000 local homes and businesses.


The project is part of approximately £800m UK


Power Networks is investing in the electricity network across the South East, London and East of England this year. From schools to hospitals, water supplies to railway stations, the electricity network serves more than 8.5 million homes and businesses via


the company’s cables and substations. The network includes more than 53,000 kilometres of underground and overhead power lines in the South East alone.


University of East London reduces carbon emissions in first stage of net zero strategy


The University of East London (UEL) has reduced its carbon emissions by 10% from its 2020/21 baseline to 2022/23 in the first phase of its new net zero strategy, putting the organisation on track to achieve its 2030 net-zero target


EL partnered with leading technology company Siemens to develop the strategy, which included a roadmap to reduce carbon emissions across the university’s campuses in the London Docklands and Stratford, which are home to 25,000 students. The first major step towards energy and therefore emission reduction on campus was through the installation of LED lighting in all buildings and upgrades to all building management system controllers. As part of the second phase, Siemens is installing technologies across the University’s campuses which will help it to decarbonise its energy consumption.


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This includes the installation of approximately 2MW of solar photovoltaics (PV), which is estimated to generate 1.2 GWh of zero carbon electricity a year, and the installation of 27 electric


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charging points at the University’s Docklands Campus, which will go live in the next month. UEL estimates that 90% of this zero carbon energy will be consumed across the University’s campuses, with the remainder exported to the National Grid. Siemens will also support UEL in creating a ‘Living Lab’ to embed sustainability across the


University’s course curriculums and provide real- time data allowing students to develop the skills they need to succeed in a green economy. Faye Bowser, vice president for the Higher Education Vertical at Siemens, said: “Our partnership with UEL will support the University in meeting its net zero targets, providing a structured roadmap to cut carbon emissions across both campuses. “We’ve already made significant progress over the last 12 months and the next phase will focus on installing more new renewable energy assets on-site to support sustainable generation.” Professor Amanda Broderick, vice chancellor and president, University of East London, added: “Our long-term partnership with Siemens is central to our commitment to becoming a national decarbonisation leader, and providing a global blueprint for urban sustainability.”


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