Grid Capacity

Part of Energy Security and Net Zero – in the House of Commons at on 8 October 2024.

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Photo of Michael Shanks Michael Shanks Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

The hon. Lady is right to highlight those issues. The connections queue, in particular, is a huge challenge, with more than 700 GW waiting to join it. The last Government did some work to establish how the queue could be prioritised, and we will now implement that, but we need to go further. It is clear that by 2030 we will need to build four times as much new transmission network as has been built since 1990. This is a project to rewire the entire country, to improve the current connections availability, and to work with everyone, including the new national energy systems operator, on the road map towards 2030.