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Recommendation 3
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Establish multidisciplinary planning cell to develop detailed delivery pathway for decarbonised grid by 2024.
Recommendation
We recommend that the Government, together with Ofgem and the National Energy System Operator, establish a multidisciplinary planning cell tasked with the development of a detailed pathway to the decarbonised grid. This unit ought to be commissioned to produce a delivery plan that sets out the necessary investment and rollout of electricity infrastructure required to deliver the Government’s current ambitions for low carbon electricity generation. The cell should be established as soon as possible, with a view to producing initial pathways and plans by the end of 2024 at the latest.
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The government published its decision to introduce a cap and floor scheme for Long Duration Electricity Storage (LDES), with the first application round expected in 2025. They also committed to designing a new business model for hydrogen storage infrastructure by 2025.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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The Government agrees this is an important recommendation. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has established the 2030 Clean Power Unit, headed by Chris Stark, to accelerate the delivery of the critical, clean energy infrastructure needed to provide Britain with clean power by 2030. In August 2024, the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero and Chris Stark commissioned the National Energy System Operator (NESO) to provide independent advice on the pathway to clean power 2030. The Government received NESO’s response on 5 November. We will review this advice and publish a Clean Power 2030 Action Plan by the end of the year. Further to this, NESO will also produce the Centralised Strategic Network Plan (CSNP) in 2027, which will cover the whole GB network and consider the development of other energy vectors such as natural gas transmission and hydrogen. The CSNP will be informed by the Strategic Spatial Energy Plan, which was formally commissioned on 22 October 2024 and is expected to be published in 2026, covering both electricity generation and storage. Storage (Recommendations 2&3)
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