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Ninth Report - Revised (Draft) National Policy Statement for Energy
Business and Trade Committee
HC 1151
Published 25 February 2022
Government response
Fourth Special Report - Revised (Draft) National Policy Statement for Energy: Government response to the Committee’s Ninth Report of Session 2021–22 · published 27 Apr 2023
Recommendations & Conclusions
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Conclusion
Rejected
We also recommend that the NPS include language on maintaining the resilience of fossil fuel...
Conclusion
We also recommend that the NPS include language on maintaining the resilience of fossil fuel infrastructure that will remain in use up to 2035, in line with existing Government policy. (Paragraph 64) Revised (Draft) National Policy Statement for Energy 23
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Government Response Summary
The government rejects the recommendation, stating that the transmission network is already resilient and designed to ensure protection from potential risks and that recommending undergrounding of infrastructure would be unnecessary and costly.
Department for Business and Trade
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Recommendation
Rejected
We recommend that Ministers consider whether reference to undergrounding should be extended to include application...
Recommendation
We recommend that Ministers consider whether reference to undergrounding should be extended to include application in areas where network resilience, for example to extreme weather events, is considered more likely in the future. We ask that Ministers write to this …
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Government Response Summary
The government does not consider undergrounding transmission network infrastructure on the basis of resilience necessary, as the transmission network already runs at high reliability and undergrounding is costly. The storms primarily impacted lower voltage distribution networks, which are not significantly affected by the NSIP regime.
Department for Business and Trade
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