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Renewable Energy: Farms

Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN HL1174, tabled on 21 June 2022

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to reduce the cost of connecting viable schemes to the national grid in order to increase levels of renewable energy production on farms.

Answered on

5 July 2022

Ofgem regulates network connection charges. It has decided that distribution network connection costs for renewable energy projects will be reduced from April 2023, where distribution network reinforcement is required.

Answered by

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy