The UK Government has unveiled reforms to accelerate grid connections for clean energy projects, including hydrogen, with confirmation expected from Ofgem and the National Energy System Operator (NESO).
The aim is to unlock £40bn a year in mostly private clean energy investment and fast-track projects aligned with the government’s Clean Power 2030 and Plan for Change. The reforms will deprioritise “zombie projects” that are not ready or aligned with national energy plans currently clogging the grid connection queue.
“Companies are currently waiting up to 15 years to be connected to the grid leaving promising businesses ‘grid-locked’, and over the last five years, the grid connection queue has grown tenfold,” the government said in an online statement.
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