Responding to today’s announcement on energy policy from the Conservatives, National Grid chief executive, Steve Holliday, said:

“The Conservatives are focusing on all the right areas.  Key energy issues like CCS, nuclear, renewables, the planning regime, smart grids will be crucial to meeting climate change targets and maintaining energy security.

“We particularly welcome the Conservatives’ proposals for a more strategic approach to creating an offshore grid, connecting up new wind generation and increasing our interconnection with the rest of Europe.  This open networks approach will be the most cost effective way of helping the country achieve secure low carbon energy.

”But ultimately, in all these areas it is action that will count and it will be vital to get the detail of the commercial frameworks right.  We’re committed to working with the Conservatives, as we are with all of the political parties, to help them achieve this and play our part in making the critical energy investments that the country needs in the coming decades.”

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