PURPOSE AND SCOPE

This document describes the overall process for developing a single, deliverable work plan from 7 years+ ahead, for the delivery of work by, or on behalf of, National Grid Electricity Transmission.

Throughout this document the term ‘work’ encompasses the following:

• Licensed work - Capital works, routine inspections and maintenance, repairs, modifications and outage work for National Grid Electricity Transmission assets.

• Unlicensed work – Capital works, routine inspections and maintenance, repairs, modifications and outage work on the assets of Customers, 3rd parties and other National Grid businesses.

The geographical scope of the work is England and Wales.

National Grid Electricity Transmission’s ability to achieve its’ licensed and unlicensed obligations including the enduring maintenance of a safe, secure, efficient transmission system for all its’ customers is dependent on the delivery of this work plan.

The overall, end-to-end work planning process described in this document has the following key objectives:

• Development of an optimised, deliverable work plan.  

• Alignment of capital & maintenance works.

• Maximising the utilisation of resources and outage opportunities.

• Managing changes to the work plan through change control arrangements which are appropriate to the stage of the work planning process.

These objectives will only be achieved by application of the following key principles, which are embodied within this document:

• Providing sufficient lead time for the development and design of capital works, to ensure individual and interactive schemes are deliverable.

• Adherence to the defined work planning Milestones, which are crucial to determining the deliverability of the plan.

• Adherence to cross-Transmission change control processes, to ensure that potential changes to the plan are systematically assessed, agreed and implemented.

• Application of effective cross-Transmission governance, to ensure that the processes are adhered to and their effectiveness continually reviewed.

This procedure interacts with a number of other Transmission Procedures, and in particular the Network Development Process Map Enabling Document UKBP/TP500, which initiates all the capital work coordinated by this work planning process.

To achieve the above, UKBP/TP205 describes:

• The overall processes and governance arrangements which enable a single, integrated view of planned work to be provided to the business, enabling its’ deliverability to be assessed and where necessary modifications made to the plan and contingencies put in place.

• The specific processes. The process are: identification of outage and resource requirements, via the Scheme Requirements Document (SRD), work prioritisation, change control, projects at risk and demand at risk.

More detailed procedures may be produced within parts of the business, where it is considered that a fuller description of their internal processes are required to enable them to discharge their responsibilities associated with this Transmission Procedure.