What This Means for New York

National Grid is building a smarter, stronger energy grid to deliver a more robust, resilient, and secure energy network for our customers and communities. Our work involves upgrading the transmission grid to improve improve the reliability of our network and meet the energy demands of New Yorkers for years to come.

What This Means for New York

National Grid’s Upstate Upgrade

Every day at National Grid, our 5,900 Upstate New York colleagues are working together for our customers and communities across the 25,000 square miles we serve. We know what we do matters immensely, and how we do it matters even more. It’s why we are embarking on the largest transmission upgrade in our history to modernize our electricity system to support the needs of our 1.7 million customers.

The Investments Proposed Help Us Achieve Four Key Goals:

Meet our customers increasing electricity demands as they use more and more electronic devices.
Safeguard our systems against extreme weather events.
Integrate and optimize renewable energy and storage at all levels.
Provide modern energy infrastructure to spur economic development and growth.

Foundational to meeting these goals is modernizing the electric grid — the generation, transmission and distribution systems that delivers power where you need it, when you need it. We’re transforming yesterday’s one-way power delivery system, which was designed to carry electricity from large power generating stations long distances to homes and businesses, into tomorrow’s smarter, two-way superhighway with many on-ramps and off-ramps to connect and transport power produced in our region.