Written Evidence May. 15 2024
Inquiry: A flexible Grid for the futureFound: GRI0138 - A flexible grid for the future Suffolk Energy Action Solutions (SEAS) Written Evidence
Sep. 13 2024
Source Page: New publicly owned National Energy System Operator to pave the way to a clean energy futureFound: New publicly owned National Energy System Operator to pave the way to a clean energy future
Mentions:
1: Bill Esterson (Lab - Sefton Central) One of the mistakes made by the previous Government was the delay in developing grid capacity and grid - Speech Link
2: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon West) We face many challenges, but the grid is at the heart and soul of so many of them. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Ed Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) With Great British Energy and our national wealth fund, we will invest to make sure our clean power mission - Speech Link
2: Mark Garnier (Con - Wyre Forest) The Secretary of State has spoken at length about the need to overcome challenges facing the grid. - Speech Link
3: Ed Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) went to the electorate on this point and were endorsed on it is that, unless we have a publicly owned national - Speech Link
4: Ed Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) That is why we went into the election with a range of measures, including Great British Energy, the national - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) If she will make an assessment of the ability of the National Grid to connect to large solar farms in - Speech Link
2: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) National grid infrastructure is critical to the delivery and connection of these solar farms, as it is - Speech Link
3: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) According to National Grid, £58 billion of investment is needed to meet our 2035 decarbonising target - Speech Link
4: Dan Poulter (Con - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich) Will he do what he can to engage with National Grid and get it to do the right thing and look at a cost-neutral - Speech Link
5: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) Energy security is national security, and food security is national security. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) A lack of national grid capacity and investment is also a major stumbling block. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Young of Old Scone (Lab - Life peer) The process of revamping the grid in this country and changing the way in which join-up to the grid happens - Speech Link
3: Lord Teverson (LD - Life peer) , as that is around a grid connection as well. - Speech Link
4: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) The Crown Estate is also already working in partnership with National Grid to ensure that its current - Speech Link
Asked by: Matheson, Michael (Scottish National Party - Falkirk West)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it can provide an update on what progress has been made by SGN and National Grid to understand the role that hydrogen can play in meeting its heat decarbonisation targets, as set out in its Hydrogen Action Plan.
Answered by Martin, Gillian - Acting Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero and Energy
Scottish Government officials are engaging with National Grid on the Project Union initiative exploring the phased repurposing of the UK’s natural gas National Transmission System (NTS) to create a UK hydrogen backbone carrying 100% hydrogen. Decisions on the future of the Gas Grid are a reserved matter and are expected to be made in 2026 by the UK Government. We continue to routinely engage with UKG on a range of hydrogen policy matters including recent consultations on Transport and Storage Hydrogen Business Models
SGN are core members of the Scottish Hydrogen Industry Forum.
Asked by: Matheson, Michael (Scottish National Party - Falkirk West)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what progress has been made with electricity and gas network operators to realise system benefits of hydrogen, as set out in its Hydrogen Action Plan.
Answered by Martin, Gillian - Acting Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero and Energy
Scotland’s huge potential for renewable electricity generation, and hydrogen’s utility, means that it can also act as a vector for energy storage and a balancing service to the electricity grid. It can additionally act as a vector for transportation, particularly considering grid constraints.
We are engaging closely with the UKG, OfGEM, and National Grid ESO ahead of the launch of the National Energy System operator this Summer to underline the need for strategic planning and to ensure that hydrogen production, storage and system utility is considered and other areas such as progressive approaches to flexibility reform and grid connection timelines, as they affect the viability of hydrogen projects, are reflected in our engagement in strategic programmes such as the Review of Electricity Market Arrangements (REMA) and Strategic Spatial Energy Plan (SSEP) and the ESO Constraints Collaboration project which is seeking solutions for thermal constraints, which can reduce costs to the consumer or reduce the curtailment of renewable generation.
Report May. 24 2024
Committee: Environmental Audit CommitteeFound: The National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) estimates that even with optimal reinforcement of
Mentions:
1: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) Making our country more resilient in those circumstances has become a national imperative. - Speech Link
2: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) As Lincolnshire county council has argued, the offshore grid is a much more suitable way of transmitting - Speech Link
3: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) He was right to highlight the National Grid decision-making process, and to play his part in that discussion - Speech Link