Overview

• Richard Tice unveiled UK Opposes Renewable Eyesores in Boston, Lincolnshire, with backing from Dame Andrea Jenkyns and Sean Matthews and plans to extend into Norfolk and Suffolk.
• The group’s website will plot proposed solar farms and overhead pylon routes to mobilise community resistance and deter investment in the upcoming Allocation Round 7 contract round.
• Reform UK has vowed to scrap existing net-zero targets and reopen North Sea oil and gas drilling to push back against what it calls the countryside blight of green infrastructure.
• Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero maintain that rigorous planning processes safeguard local input and that new pylons and solar farms are essential to lower bills and hit 2050 net-zero goals.
• The National Energy System Operator warns that achieving emissions targets will require about £60 billion in grid upgrades, including hundreds of miles of overhead lines and undersea cables.