b'Partner News Summer 2022 19EnterpriseHeroes of innovationEngineers have been changing the world since history began, and on 4 March, we celebrated their innovations during UNESCOs World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development.If you want to change the world for theTake Dr Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, thewhich have been, and will continue to be, an better, become an engineer, said UNESCO.Liverpool-born engineer who createdessential part of the grid for decades.These words could not be truer in thethe first truly modern power station and field of electrical powerunarguably thedistribution system in Deptford, London. HeTapchangers are among millions of bits of most important technology in the race todesigned the building, the generating plantengineering that make up electricity grids decarbonise human activity and deliver aand the distribution system. In 1890, it beganglobally, representing trillions of pounds sustainable future. supplying high-voltage AC power at 10,000of investment. The world cannot afford to volts, which then transformed to a lowerreplace its transmission and distribution We need engineers to deliver electricityvoltage for consumersthe model usedsystems totallynor should it. We need from zero carbon sources. And just asworldwide for transmission and distribution.to build on what we have, using innovative importantly, we need them to moderniseengineering and intelligent investment to do our transmission and distribution systems toDr Ferrantis name lives on in Ferrantithings differently.deal with unprecedented changes in the wayTapchangers, which has been part of our electricity is generated and used. It needscompany Fundamentals since 2017. WeSo, how can engineers adapt a grid model radical thinking and innovationsomethingmaintain, refurbish and update thousands ofcreated 132 years ago to a dramatically engineers have always brought to the table. tapchanger units from multiple manufacturers,different landscape of supply and demand?'