Strategically aligned connections are key to achieving clean power targets

Reporting after a period of initial consultation, National Energy Systems Operator (NESO) asserts that 2030 clean power targets can only be achieved through strategic alignment of Grid assets

The body, which has direction of the infrastructure development needed to meet the UK’s Green Energy targets, goes on to add:

• Ensuring a future where everyone has access to clean, reliable and affordable energy will require viable projects to connect to the Grid to provide the zero-carbon electricity needed to deliver a clean power system.
• To achieve the goals set out in the Government’s Clean Power 2030 Action Plan (CP30 Plan), we’re proposing to reform the connections process by introducing a new, agile, future-proof process for connection access to the transmission system that ensures strategically aligned projects are connected in a timely and efficient manner to achieve clean power.
• Inviting industry stakeholders to provide feedback, including via formal consultation will play an important role.

It’s clearly the start of a long journey.  Speaking after his appointment earlier this year, CEO Fintan Slye made no bones about the scale of the challenge, describing it as the “Limit of What’s Achievable” before going on to add:

“All of the things that we’re talking about are much bigger than what we can solve ourselves” he said, adding “It requires not only for us to do everything that we can do quicker, but also very, very differently as well.”

The first task facing Neso is drawing up the roadmap that will take Britain to an era of clean power by 2030.  This will be used as part of an effort to break down the fragmented thinking that has hindered progress to date and chart a holistic future for British energy. For the first time, the system operator will be co-creating the landscape it controls

The roadmap is likely to set out two or three routes which offer different strategies, with different costs and challenges, to reach the same destination. Ultimately, it will be up to government ministers to decide which path to take.

It’s clear that keeping the lights on 24/7 particularly as EV adoption ramps up, will require a portfolio approach to generation and some difficult decisions around the Grid will have to be taken early on. But this fresh approach sponsoring new ways of thinking and collaborations will certainly give it the best chance of success.

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