What This Means for New York

National Grid is building a Smarter, Stronger, Cleaner 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 resiliency and reliability, and connect clean energy produced right here in New York.

What This Means for New York

National Grid’s Upstate Upgrade

Every day at National Grid, our 5,600 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 and help achieve the Empire State’s climate, clean energy and equity goals.

The Investments Proposed Help Us Achieve Four Key Goals:

Meet our customers increasing electricity demands as they use more and more electronic devices and turn to cleaner sources of energy for their home, business and transportation needs.
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 cleaner, smarter, two-way superhighway with many on-ramps and off-ramps to connect and transport the wind and solar power now produced in our region.