National Grid says it will be setting up roughly 50 ‘bird diverters’ along a 300-metre stretch of the brand-new T-pylons going through part of the Burnham-On-Sea location following a number of swans being killed or hurt by the lines previously this year.
Burnham-On-Sea.com initially reported here in February that Secret World Wildlife Rescue carers had actually been shocked to discover several dead or hurt swans lying next to the power lines in the town of Mark, as visualized above.
National Grid promised to totally examine the cases and its spokesperson Helen Blake has actually informed Burnham-On-Sea.com today: “We can confirm that we will be installing approximately 50 bird diverters on the wire spans either side of the location where the birds were found – it’s a stretch of 300 metres in total.”
She includes: “This action is being taken as a result of our investigations into the reported bird collision and review of the findings of enhanced bird monitoring in the area by an independent team of ecologists.”
116 of the brand-new T-pylons are being built along the Hinkley Connection path, extending 35-miles from Hinkley Point power station to Avonmouth.
The brand-new pylons will link 6 million houses and businesses to brand-new sources of home grown, low carbon energy and help the UK to fulfill its net absolutely no by 2050 target.
High-voltage electrical energy – as much as 400,000 volts – is now going through the 36 of the T-pylons after they were ‘energised’ this month.
There are likewise 8.5km of underground cable televisions through the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. A more 80 T-pylons will be finished and energised by 2024.
Construction of the very first T-pylons started in September 2021, with all the conductors or wires that transfer the energy between Bridgwater and Loxton installed by March 2022. The conductors are now energised and transferring electrical energy around the National Grid’s electrical energy network.
The T-pylon style, the very first significant UK redesign given that 1927, has a single pole and cross shaped arms, and is around a 3rd much shorter than conventional high-voltage pylon style with a smaller sized ground footprint.
The brand-new style was picked from over 250 styles participated in a global competitors run in 2011, arranged by the Royal Institute of British Architects and federal government (the then Department of Energy and Climate Change).
