Powering
A smarter
Energy future

ED3 comes at a key moment for the UK’s energy system and energy policy, with electricity networks playing a central role in delivering economic growth, increasing energy security and customers’ electrification ambitions. It is excellent to see the Government’s ambition for growth and the more explicit recognition of the important role of Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) in delivering it. As labour and capital-intensive businesses that provide essential enabling infrastructure in every region of the country, we are ideally placed to enable regional growth.

As well as driving growth, our investment will strengthen energy security through the expansion and modernisation of our network to enable the connection of more home-grown, low-carbon power and reduced reliance on imported energy. In tandem, our customers will be able to satisfy their own electrification ambitions, as we expand network capacity to enable the connection of low-carbon technologies and electrification of homes.

Phil Jones, CEO