James Watson CEng, FIET
@EngineerLondon
Engineer. Historian. Beer-Drinker. Publican's Friend. Hi-Fi Anorak. Technocrat. Patriot. Improving Husband. Feminist. “The Attenborough of the Relay Room”
My stuff will increasingly be here 👇🏻 bsky.app/profile/engine… Come on in, the water’s lovely 🥰
We’re getting Britain building. Sizewell C has officially been given the green light, with government the main shareholder. Helping deliver clean, homegrown power to millions of homes, supporting thousands of jobs and unlocking growth across the country.
Government now main shareholder in £38bn Sizewell C bbc.in/44ISVM2
At 13:00, subject to weather and operational requirements, 29 aircraft from 9 RAF stations will conduct a flypast over Buckingham Palace and the Royal Family to celebrate His Majesty The King’s Official Birthday. #TroopingTheColour #KingsBirthdayFlypast #KingsBirthdayParade
Seen on social media, the last two RN Falkland survivors (BRISTOL & ARGUS) meet for a final time. Apt that as BRISTOL leaves for scrap, she passes a Royal Navy fleet carrier, almost 60yrs after the cancellation of CVA01 rendered her an orphan ship. The end of an era.
This nails it - the MOD talks the agile talk, while the Ukrainians JFDI stuff...
How many IRTBs, conferences, ITT, working groups, endless Teams meetings, onboarding consultants, demonstrations, procurement, oversight, reviews, acceptance tests, tranches of AHs, SO1 & 2s, months/years of Badmin & biblical piles of cash would this take us?
HMS Prince of Wales in Darwin. This is a deeply impressive picture. Full complement of F-35Bs plus Merlin ASW helicopters. It has taken a long time, but we got there.
NEWS: The leasehold sale of the Regency Café in Pimlico, Westminster has just been announced, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 1946, the Regency has developed a cult following as one of the dwindling number of greasy spoon caffs in London. Over past three decades it has…
What’s a #BlackStart? Well it’s NOT an outage, power cut, loss of supply, localised fault, blown fuse, shutdown, trip, fault. It’s a TOTAL shutdown of the power system, with the desynchronisation of all power stations. It’s DEAD 😵 We have NEVER had one. So relax folks ☺️ [1/20]
Britain's broken energy system. Companies built windfarms where there's no grid and you pay them to not generate Soaring costs, locked in for years to come, & more on the way It's not good enough to sigh- something must change It's brutal for families and crippling for growth
Wind curtailment and gas turn-up costs in 2025 are up ~50% compared to this time last year
Another significant milestone in our work to overhaul the connections queue and unleash ready-to-go clean power projects that will help us reach our 2030 target. 👇
The Connections Reform evidence submission window is now open! Until 29 July, projects with existing agreements can submit evidence of their readiness and alignment with UK energy goals. This new streamlined connections process will boost clean power and economic growth in GB. 👇
Our final report on the North Hyde Substation outage describes the cause of the incident, the reasons for the outage, and gives recommendations for enhancing the resilience of essential services and Critical National Infrastructure against future energy disruptions. Read here. ⬇
The 400kv Supergrid turns 60 today..Happy birthday. 4ZP on Blackstone Edge Lancashire. @pylonofthemonth @EngineerLondon
History in the making: The Red Arrows over London this afternoon - performing a world-first flypast using sustainable fuels, for His Majesty The King’s Official Birthday. Read more: bit.ly/3HCK70T #RedArrows | #RAF | #London | #KBF
Providing the 🔴⚪️🔵 over London. #RedArrows | #RAF | #London | #KBF
#OnThisDay 1999 HM The Queen gave permission for Surg.Capt. Rick Jolly to wear insignia of the Argentine Orden de Mayo granted by Argentina for Jolly’s life saving care to Argentine casualties as well as British during the Falklands, he was the only person decorated by both sides
How many IRTBs, conferences, ITT, working groups, endless Teams meetings, onboarding consultants, demonstrations, procurement, oversight, reviews, acceptance tests, tranches of AHs, SO1 & 2s, months/years of Badmin & biblical piles of cash would this take us?
#OnThisDay 1916 151 ships of @RoyalNavy Grand Fleet & 99 ships of the German High Seas Fleet met at Battle of #Jutland Britain claim strategic victory under Adm. Jellicoe & Beatty & Germany a numeric victory under Adm. Scheer & Von Hipper. 8645 sailors were lost from both sides
We apologise for any inconvenience following a fault on our transmission network in central London this afternoon. The fault was resolved within seconds and did not interrupt supply from our network, but a consequent voltage dip may have briefly affected power supplies on the…
Yes it’s basically a claim that both companies and govt have a secret plan to spend much more than they need to.
UK Power Networks was called to a fire at a substation in St John’s Wood, early this morning (29 April). This has not interrupted power supplies. Our teams are working with the fire service to make the equipment safe. This is an isolated incident and customers’ supplies were…