Electricity networks: transmission acceleration action plan

Transmission Acceleration Action Plan: Government response to the Electricity Networks Commissioner’s report on accelerating electricity transmission network build

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.