Select committee: Industry and Regulators Committee
Government Response to the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee Report: Power struggle - Delivering Great Britain’s electricity grid infrastructure
Published 5 August 2025
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At a glance
The government's response
This document responds to 1st Report - Power struggle: Delivering Great Britain’s electricity grid infrastructure.
This is the government's response, published 5 August 2025.
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government thanks the Committee and sets out progress on Clean Power 2030, agreeing with a number of recommendations (for example on Ofgem's Strategy and Policy Statement, the ASTI framework and recognising the SSEP and CSNP in planning) while pursuing reform within a single national wholesale price.
- On wholesale pricing, the government has concluded that reforming while retaining a single national wholesale price is best, so it has not taken forward zonal pricing. It plans to publish a Reformed National Pricing Delivery Plan "later this year".
- On Ofgem, the government "agrees" that ASTI principles should be embedded in future price controls and that Ofgem should aim to reduce reliance on uncertainty mechanisms, "where appropriate".
- On planning, it agrees that the SSEP, CSNP and RESPs should be recognised in the planning system and will consider how "in due course". It expects to publish updated National Policy Statements "by the end of 2025".
- On connections, NESO's timeline shows all developers receiving an updated connection offer "by May 2026". A Connections Accelerator Service for demand projects is expected to begin operating "at the end of 2025".
What the committee recommended
This is a government response document, so it has no recommendations of its own.