Britain’s overstretched electricity grid is delaying housing projects
The grid needs to be expanded to cope with the demands of net zero
On may 24th the Greater London Authority, a governance body for the capital, wrote to the person in charge of planning and economic development in the borough of Ealing. The letter, entitled “Electricity Capacity in West London”, noted that housing developers were facing delays in connecting new homes to the grid, and that electricity would not be available to them until between 2027 and 2030. New battery-storage systems and data centres had already gobbled up capacity.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Gridlocked”
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