Policy paper

Electricity networks: transmission acceleration action plan

The government바카라 사이트檚 response to the Electricity Network Commissioner바카라 사이트檚 report on accelerating electricity transmission network build.

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Published: 22 November 2023

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

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The Transmission Acceleration Action Plan is the government바카라 사이트檚 response to the report from Electricity Networks Commissioner Nick Winser CBE, published in August 2023.

It responds to 43 recommendations across 8 themes:

• strategic spatial planning
• design standards
• regulatory approval
• planning approval
• supply chain and skills
• communities and engagement
• outage planning
• end-to-end process and next steps

The government accepts the Commissioner바카라 사이트檚 recommendations in all areas, and in some cases seeks to go further.

The Action Plan seeks to halve the end-to-end build time of electricity transmission network infrastructure, from 14 to 7 years.

We published this alongside the Electricity networks: connections action plan.

Published 22 November 2023