LONDON, UK— Britain’s National Grid ESO is planning reforms to speed up the process of connecting renewable energy projects.
RenewableUK’s Director of Future Electricity Systems, Barnaby Wharton, said: “It’s one of a number of measures which we’ve been calling for as a matter of urgency, to enable us to connect vital clean energy projects to the grid faster, as some offshore wind farms are currently having to wait for more than 10 years to do so. Grid connection delays are holding back £15 billion [$18.79 billion] of investment in offshore wind alone over the course of this decade…
“The next key step forward would be for ministers to sign off the amendment to the energy bill currently going through parliament to give the regulator Ofgem a new remit, which specifically puts achieving the government’s net-zero goal at the heart of every decision it takes.”
