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Electricity networks: transmission acceleration action plan
The government’s response to the Electricity Network Commissioner’s report on accelerating electricity transmission network build.
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The Transmission Acceleration Action Plan is the government’s 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 Commissioner’s 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.