A new report by the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has found that slow grid connections and a lack of clear plans for energy storage must be fixed in order for the UK to meet its net zero goals by 2035.

The EAC – a cross-party parliamentary committee responsible for scrutinising the UK government’s environmental policy across all departments – has published a new report called Enabling sustainable electrification of the UK economy.

The report highlights the government’s commitment to decarbonising Great Britain’s electricity grid fully by 2035. This will mean increasing capacity by 250% in little over a decade and, as such, is one of the most ambitious undertakings by any peacetime government.

To support this increase in renewable energy projects, there is an urgent need to revamp the electricity grid. The UK’s existing queue for Transmission Entry Capacity (TEC) – the queue for connecting new projects to the grid – is massively oversubscribed, and the problem has become more severe...