Row 82560

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It's been a policy both parties have generally agree on for ages, the problem is twofold.

One is legal delays from NIMBYs against all proposed routes for new pylons. Back when the National Grid was first proposed there were also legal objections, but back then the government at the time had balls and essentially said "Tough shit, it's going to massively benefit everyone so we're doing it."

The other is more problematical, a lack of trained people. The National Grid department responsible for high voltage stuff which also includes connecting up energy generators (from the few massive power stations of the past to the dozens/hundreds of smaller renewable energy generating locations) to the national grid via high and medium voltage pylons, substations, etc has a backlog of around 15 years.

In order to upgrade the UK National Grid *and* connect up all the waiting and in the pipeline renewables (all those offshore wind farms) in time to make the political target of Net Zero by 2050 the past **and** current rate is only 33% of what is needed. The longer they take to ramp up the greater their required construction rate will have to reach.

At this point I'm not confident they'll make it by 2050, then again I'm also not confident they'll be able to build enough renewables either. If the politicians don't screw it up too badly it ought to be possible to reduce average CO2 emissions down to 10% of 2012 levels.

Unfortunately a part of that would involve an **extremely** expensive national infrastructure upgrade to properly insulate the entirety of the aging UK housing stock to required levels. Just doing that could reduce yearly natural gas consumption by as much as half. It would have to be a government project because the break even point would be something like 50 odd years which is too long for most individual home owners to see as worthwhile.

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