LONDON, UK - 8th December 2025: National Grid's Strategic Infrastructure (SI) team is expanding its use of the digital visualisation planning platform Sensat to support the development and delivery of new electricity infrastructure projects across England and Wales.

The new agreement gives National Grid access to Sensat’s platform across its programme of major infrastructure projects, replacing the previous project-by-project approach to the whole portfolio. This is expected to offer greater flexibility and improved efficiency in developing, planning, and coordinating complex infrastructure projects at the early stages, positioning them for successful delivery. 

The move supports National Grid’s wider efforts to digitise and standardise how energy infrastructure solutions are developed and delivered.  By leveraging tools like Sensat, teams can better understand site conditions, test different design options early on and support faster decision making.

This strategic shift reflects National Grid’s commitment to accelerating the UK’s energy transition by digitising its infrastructure planning process and enabling faster, smarter project delivery. By adopting a portfolio-wide approach, National Grid is helping set a new standard for visualising, coordinating, and delivering energy infrastructure. The SI team will use Sensat to gain enhanced geospatial context, evaluate optimal design options earlier, and make key development decisions with greater clarity and confidence.

Steve Smith, Chief Strategy and Regulation Officer at National Grid, said: “The scale and pace of our energy infrastructure delivery demands smarter, faster ways of working — from concept to commissioning. With Sensat, we’re transforming how we visualise solutions and align teams across complex projects across the portfolio. This partnership equips us to make better-informed decisions, accelerate development, and deliver with confidence. By creating the right digital environment, we’re shaping solutions that benefit customers, communities, and the development and delivery of the energy system.”

Harry Atkinson, Co-founder of Sensat, comments: "We are proud to partner with National Grid’s Strategic Infrastructure team as they embark on the most ambitious programme in a generation. This partnership reflects what's already been working across their business, with Sensat helping their teams deliver faster and make clearer decisions earlier in the project lifecycle by enabling them to visualise their data. National Grid is building on this success and making access to Sensat ubiquitous across their Strategic Infrastructure portfolio. This will give everyone access to a proven digital tool that helps teams deliver more confidently and quickly."

Sensat’s platform brings together previously siloed datasets into a single, intuitive visual environment. It enables a better understanding of site constraints and improves cross-disciplinary collaboration by giving engineers and planners a real-world geospatial context. The platform complements existing GIS, CAD, and engineering workflows, offering infrastructure teams a visual starting point that enhances, rather than replaces, their current toolset.

Based on results seen in earlier deployments, Sensat expects its platform to help reduce development timelines by up to 25% through more informed decision-making and faster alignment across stakeholders.

To learn more or request a demo, visit www.sensat.co.

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About Sensat

Sensat is a geospatial AI company that powers digital twins for leading construction, engineering, and infrastructure projects. Composed of multiple layers of rich data, digital twins help businesses to digitally visualise projects and assets for planning, construction and management processes, reducing costs, risks and delays. Sensat has received more than £25 million in funding from blue-chip investors, including National Grid Partners, Tencent, and Innovate. They work with some of the world’s largest construction, engineering, and critical infrastructure companies, including Network Rail, Heathrow and UK Atomic Energy Authority.  The company is at the forefront of Geospatial AI, enabling businesses to access spatially intelligent digital twins and extract value from huge pools of previously inaccessible data.

Sensat media contact:

Paige Brewer, Senior Account Executive, Bluestripe Group

sensat@bluestripegroup.co.uk / +44 (0)7542 796 742

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