26 May 2021
OFGFEM

As part of the ongoing campaign to develop an Offshore Transmission Network (often known as an Offshore Ring Main or ORM), I was delighted to join a call with OFGEM earlier this week.

Together with a number of MPs from Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, I continued our work to lobby the key stakeholders in the development of this Offshore Transmission Network. With the policy argument for an OTN firmly won, we must do all we can to get that OTN developed as swiftly, and effectively, as possible.

The sooner we have this comprehensive strategic Plan for the delivery of offshore wind infrastructure (instead of the current ramshackle approach of each individual wind farm using their own Wembley Stadium-sized substation and cable corridors to connect to the National Grid), the sooner we will have a model that ensures we can meet, and even exceed, the Government’s ‘Green Energy’ targets, while also minimising the amount of onshore environmental damage and disruption to businesses, farmers and communities.

To stay up to date with all my work on this campaign, please visit my website here – where you can read the decade long history and see my some of my most important web-stories over the past couple of years.