UK Slashes Power-Grid Queue to Fast-Track Key Energy Projects

A new home next to electricity pylons in Bramford, UK.

Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

The UK’s power-grid operator slashed the queue for connections to the network, allowing the most advanced generation projects to move to the front of the line.

The National Energy System Operator axed more than 300 gigawatts of projects, with many not ready for a link-up and others deemed inessential to the country’s clean-power ambitions.