The Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said that Labour’s plans for a 114-mile pylon plan as an “absolute disaster” for the UK “landscapes.”
National Grid wants to cover parts of the UK with tall pylons to provide green energy from wind farms in Norwich to Tilbury.
National Grid has said that the new network of pylons is the only financially viable alternative to transfer electricity from the east coast to London by 2030.
Farage said that Labour’s plans are an “absolute disaster,” the Reform UK leader added, “The whole thing is a nonsense, I think we are despoiling our landscapes and seascapes for a form of energy that is utterly unreliable.”
Green co-leader Adrian Ramsay is one of many MPs who are against the plans to have 50 metre pylons built across the countryside in East Anglia.
Tom McGarry, from National Grid, said, “If it was cheaper and quicker to deliver it off-shore, then that’s what we would be proposing, but it is not. We have to deliver this by 2030.”
A spokesman for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) said: “Securing Britain’s clean energy future will require improving infrastructure in a cost-effective way to get renewable electricity on the grid.”
“Without this infrastructure, we will never deliver clean power for the British people.
“It is important we take people with us and are considering ways to ensure communities who live near new clean energy infrastructure can see the benefits of this.”
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