BBCNEWS BBC News at One June 4, 2024 12:19:00
The queue of projects waiting to plug in at substations like this is valued at around £200 billion. according to the national grid's own figures, 40% of those projects face a connection delay of at least a year. those investments are worth tens of billions of pounds. tackling that delay will require fundamental reform, says the grid. more infrastructure is needed. we will need more places like this and so we're working very hard to do that, to design that and build it at a faster pace than we ever have done before. she says integrating renewables into the country's electricity system represen...