Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 38
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DESNZ continues to lack an overarching delivery plan for power sector decarbonisation.
Recommendation
We examined, in a separate inquiry, DESNZ’s ambitions for decarbonising the power sector and concluded that it lacked an overarching delivery plan that would provide confidence to the private sector to invest in new and upgraded infrastructure. We also warned that this made it difficult for DESNZ to understand the decisions and timings it must take to achieve its ambition to decarbonise the power sector by 2035.75 Yet we observed at the time of our evidence session that DESNZ still did not have a delivery plan, despite us calling for it to produce one by autumn 2023 at the latest. DESNZ told us that it now expected it to be available in “the next couple of months”. Originally, DESNZ had planned to prepare a first draft of its delivery plan by October 2022.76
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 11 July 2025. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗