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Electricity networks: transmission acceleration action plan
皇冠体育app government鈥檚 response to the Electricity Network Commissioner鈥檚 report on accelerating electricity transmission network build.
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皇冠体育app Transmission Acceleration Action Plan is the government鈥檚 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
皇冠体育app government accepts the Commissioner鈥檚 recommendations in all areas, and in some cases seeks to go further.
皇冠体育app 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.
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Published 22 November 2023