Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary<\/a>, waves through more renewable power projects.<\/p>\nThe problem is more pressing in the wind industry, given many turbines are in remote areas of Scotland with poor grid connections. However, a similar problem is arising with solar plants as the rate of construction far exceeds the ability of grid operators to connect them.<\/p>\n
A report from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero forecasts that the annual cost of constraint payments could reach \u00a310bn by 2030, all of which will be added to bills.<\/p>\n
Ms Yujnovich said the pylon lines that National Grid planned to build over the next five years would save consumers an average of \u00a340 a year in constraint payments.<\/p>\n
However, the significant expansion of its power network is infuriating communities across the country who argue that new pylons and cables are devaluing properties and damaging landscapes.<\/p>\n
Rosie Pearson, of the Community Planning Alliance, said: \u201cNational Grid is pillaging our countryside in the name of its surging profits. The Norwich to Tilbury pylon line \u2013 the largest \u2013 is causing huge harm in East Anglia. Consumers and local communities are all losing out \u2013 the only winners are National Grid and its shareholders.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Yujnovich was speaking alongside publication of National Grid\u2019s 2025-26 financial results, which showed earnings of \u00a33.2bn, up 15pc on last year. Investors earned 65.5p per share, a 9pc increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So-called \u201cconstraint costs\u201d are compensation paid to wind and solar farm operators to switch off at times when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,633,2097,12938,2580,330,7489],"class_list":["post-36567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-britain","tag-britain","tag-business","tag-companies","tag-energy-industry","tag-national-grid","tag-standard","tag-wind-power"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116574648012438182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}