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Network hopes to deliver projects across Essex, Norfolk, Kent and Suffolk, crucial to ‘decarbonising’ power system, year earlier

Labour is relying on offshore wind and a move away from gas to make Britain a green energy economy. But the transition will not be cheap

Companies are waiting up to 14 years for connections, leading some to revise net zero targets

Ed Miliband seems happy to see the landscape blighted. We value townscape – everywhere else has to fend for itself

As always with green punch-down lunacy, the poorest in society will be the hardest hit. Many people will be priced out of basic necessities they have always taken for granted such as light, heat, refrigeration, cooking facilities...

Fintan Slye, head of the new grid operator Neso, is aware that critics are sceptical about achieving ‘clean power by 2030’. But with tough decisions, he says, it can be done

Though the party has plenty to celebrate at its first conference in power for 15 years, there is much work to do to on net zero

Rollout of pylons in countryside is a cheaper, quicker way to integrate green electricity, energy adviser says

A scheme transporting Scotland’s green power to England is likely to be controversial despite lengthy consultations

The energy secretary’s plans to install thousands of pylons in unspoiled rural areas is facing a huge backlash

Electric vehicles are ‘batteries on wheels’ that can put energy back into the National Grid when solar panels and windfarms do not provide much power

The party’s targets of building 1.5m homes over five years and decarbonising the electricity grid by 2030 look a stretch

National Grid’s plan for the Suffolk coast is mirrored across the UK. We need an energy policy that protects our heritage

Britain’s landscape is under threat from developers and rapacious corporations. But I have a solution – if the next PM will listen

As the National Grid now admit this expenditure is only needed to connect wind farms in Scotland and offshore to the market, surely they should be made to pay for it.