Gridlock: Could electricity infrastructure bottlenecks derail the UK's net zero agenda?

Cecilia Keating
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The UK's new clean energy targets must be matched by a major electricity infrastructure and demand-side flexibility blitz, experts have warned

The national electricity grid is in the midst of a major makeover as it works to accomodate an explosion of smaller, dispersed, and intermittent renewable power generators on to a system historically dominated...

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