To ensure that communities and business in Wales can decarbonise in line with government targets, grid infrastructure must be able to meet the projected increase in demand for electricity. The evidence we received suggested that the grid in Wales will not be suitable to facilitate the decarbonisation of heat and transport across Wales.

To ensure that communities and business in Wales can decarbonise in line with government targets, grid infrastructure must be able to meet the projected increase in demand for electricity. The evidence we received suggested that the grid in Wales will not be suitable to facilitate the decarbonisation of heat and transport across Wales. Type: conclusion | Number: 3 | Paragraph: 48 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: The British Energy Security Strategy (BESS), published in April 2022, committed to significantly reduce timelines for delivering strategic onshore transmission network infrastructure, with an aim of reducing the development times by three years initially, and an aspiration ultimately to halve the en