New masterplan promises to halve the time it takes to deliver new grid infrastructure

Stuart Stone
clock • 8 min read
T-pylon diamond insulators being installed on Hinkley Connection Project Credit: National Grid
Image:

T-pylon diamond insulators being installed on Hinkley Connection Project Credit: National Grid

Winser Report provides 'authoritative prescription' on how to speed up clean energy grid connections and deliver a 21st century transmission network

Sweeping reforms could halve the time it takes to build new electricity transmission networks, slash the queues faced by renewables developers waiting for grid connections, and help deliver on the UK's...

To continue reading this article...

Join BusinessGreen

In just a few clicks you can start your free BusinessGreen Lite membership for 12 months, providing you access to:

  • Three complimentary articles per month covering the latest real-time news, analysis, and opinion from Europe’s leading source of information on the Green economy and business
  • Receive important and breaking news stories via our daily news alert
  • Our weekly newsletter with the best of the week’s green business news and analysis

Join now

 

Already a BusinessGreen member?

Login

More on Infrastructure

Fixing Britain's broken energy system starts with heat

Fixing Britain's broken energy system starts with heat

To reach net zero affordably, the UK must treat heat and power as critical parts of one whole energy system, not separate policy silos, argues ADE: Heat Networks' Alicja Zakrzewska

Alicja Zakrzewska, ADE: Heat Networks.
clock 05 December 2025 • 3 min read
Study: 'Major increase' in data centre demand tipped to push global grid spend past $470bn

Study: 'Major increase' in data centre demand tipped to push global grid spend past $470bn

BloombergNEF forecasts double-digit growth for grid investment for second year running, as sector responds to surge in connection requests from large data centres

Stuart Stone
clock 02 December 2025 • 4 min read
REA launches industry coalition to boost clean power for UK data centres

REA launches industry coalition to boost clean power for UK data centres

Founding members of Data Centre Coalition include Apatura, Green Scale, Clarke Energy, and Enfinium

Michael Holder
clock 28 November 2025 • 3 min read