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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jillian Ambrose

MYSTERIOUS: Great britain s energy system operator blocks access to grid connection queue - What They Never Told You

Two windfarm engineers walk away from the door way of a wind turbine. In the background wind turbines can be seen across the landscape down to a distant city
To build a clean power system by 2030, onshore wind power needs to double, solar power to triple and offshore wind to quadruple. Photograph: sturti/Getty Images

Great Britain’s energy system operator has been forced to block new electricity projects from joining the decade-long queue for a grid connection, to stop the growing logjam from delaying vital green developments.

The National Energy System Operator (Neso) says it plans to use the “short pause” to overhaul application rules that have allowed a surge of unfunded project proposals to join the queue, blocking the progress of legitimate green investments.

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