The British government has launched a plan to achieve the target of clean power by 2030. The plan sets out measures such as: cleaning up the grid system by prioritising the most important projects and ending the ‘first-come-first served’ system; speeding up decisions on planning permission by empowering planners to prioritise critical energy infrastructure; and expanding the renewable auction process to stop delays and get more projects connected. The new plan will place onshore wind projects in England that are over 100 MW under the Nationally Important Infrastructure Project regime, which makes it easier to obtain for project developers to secure planning permission and to build renewable projects.
In November 20204, the UK’s National Energy System Operator (NESO) released an independent analysis proposing two pathways to achieve the government’s goal to decarbonise its electricity sector by 2030. The report concluded that the country’s ambitions are achievable if the government takes urgent action to push the necessary policies to reach its targets, considering necessary that the British regional power networks increase their growth rate at least four times faster than in the past decade, while the UK’s high-voltage transmission network would also need to double its growth rate seen in the previous 10 years.
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