Balfour lands £121m Suffolk substation extension deal

Balfour Beatty has won a £121m contract from National Grid to extend the Bramford 400kV substation in Suffolk as part of plans to strengthen electricity supplies across East Anglia.
The four-year deal, awarded through National Grid’s EPC framework, forms a key element of the Great Grid Upgrade programme and will increase transmission capacity on the network.
Under the contract, Balfour will design and install an extension to the existing substation, creating connections for four new