National planning for energy infrastructure

Inquiry by the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee, 25 April 2025 to 31 December 2025. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 2nd Report - Gridlock or growth? Avoiding energy planning chaos (7 July 2025)
• 2nd Special Report - Gridlock or Growth? Avoiding energy planning chaos: Government Response (19 November 2025)
• 3rd Special Report – The new National Policy Statement for nuclear energy generation: Government Response (19 November 2025)

Evidence sessions

• 21 May 2025: Charles Wood, Energy UK; Chandni Ruparelia, Island Green Power; Eleri Wilce, RWE Renewables
• 21 May 2025: Lawrence Slade FEI, Energy Networks Associaiton; Charlotte Mitchell, National Grid Electricity Transmission; Julian Leslie CEng FIET, National Energy System Operator (NESO)
• 21 May 2025: Peta Donkin, National Infrastructure Planning Association; Ali Leeder, Aeos Infrastructure Planning; Graham Gunby, Suffolk County Council
• 21 May 2025: Sam Richards, Britain Remade; Jackie Copley MRTPI, Campaign for Protection of Rural England; Isobel Morris, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds