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Debate between Sarah Green and Olly Glover
Tuesday 10th June 2025

(2 weeks, 4 days ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sarah Green Portrait Sarah Green (Chesham and Amersham) (LD)
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4. What steps he is taking to increase grid capacity.

Olly Glover Portrait Olly Glover (Didcot and Wantage) (LD)
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13. What steps he is taking to increase grid capacity

Michael Shanks Portrait The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (Michael Shanks)
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Increasing grid capacity is critical. We are halving the development time for new transmission infrastructure through reforms to planning and supply chains, so that we can deliver the grid capacity needed to achieve clean power by 2030 and meet the doubling of electricity demand by 2050.

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