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Hector Pearson, National Grid, NAAONB Conference 2015
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National Grid, The VIP Project and AONBs
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At the centre of the industry
National Grid’s job is to connect people to the
energy they use, safely. We are at the heart of one
of the greatest challenges facing our society—
delivering clean energy
to support our world long into the future.
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High level facts and figures
Electricity Transmission:
7,200 km of 400kV & 275kV overhead line
1,400 km of underground cable
329 substations
Gas Transmission:
7,660 km of high pressure pipe
23 compressor stations
Gas Distribution:
Four networks - 131,000 km of gas distribution pipeline
National Grid Property:
Aim is to bring 645 sites of brownfield land back to beneficial use
New Joint venture with Berkeley Group – St.William – to make
much of this happen.
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The Future Energy Challenge
80% reduction
in CO2
emissions by
2050
Sustainability
Affordability
Security of
supply
15% of all
energy to
come from
renewable
sources by
2020
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Our job: Creating the networks
of the future
Radical change in generation mix
Manage dramatic reduction in fossil fuels and CO2 emissions
Connect new nuclear power plants
Connect to new offshore wind power – and handle intermittency
Adapt to new technologies for clean energy – e.g CCS, solar
Using the existing network - reinforce and increase capacity of overhead
lines and underground cables
Improve our ability to import gas from all over the world
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2 new approaches: routeing new lines
New approach to routeing new
electricity lines
A process rather than a policy
Early and meaningful engagement with
stakeholders and communities to
understand local considerations
Options Appraisal methods to be applied
on a case-by-case basis – no preference
for overhead or underground solutions
No inherent preference for either
overhead or underground
Greater emphasis on mitigating visual
impact – recognise that not all sites that
are valued or important are in designated
areas
9. Joe Turner | Consents Officer
New approach for existing lines
Visual Impact Provision
10. Background
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Under the new price controls,
has agreed a provision of £500 million for electricity
transmission owners to mitigate the visual impact of
existing electricity infrastructure in nationally protected
landscapes in Great Britain.
For the period 2013 – 2021
This provision can only be spent on existing lines
through Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and
National Parks
For this equates to 571km of Overhead
Line, around 7% of our network
11. Our lines in AONBs
Clwydian Range | 18.1 km
Anglesey | 1km
Cotswolds | 98 km
Blackdown Hills | 14.8 km
Cannock Chase | 0.9 km
Chilterns | 41.3 km
Cornwall | 3.3 km
Dedham Vale | 2.9 km
Cranbourne Chase & West Wiltshire | 2.4 kmDorset | 39.9 km
Shropshire Hills | 2.6 km
Forest of Bowland | 1.9 km
High Weald | 32.9 km
Kent Downs | 35.8 km
North Wessex Downs | 79.1 km
Suffolk Coasts & Heaths | 4.2 km
Solway Coast | 0.4 km
Tamar Valley | 7.8 km
Wye Valley | 4.1 km
12. Our lines in National Parks
Brecon Beacons | 17.3 km
Lake District | 3.5 km
New Forest | 27 km
North York Moors | 0.8 km
Peak District | 12.8 km
Snowdonia | 53.1 km
South Downs | 65.3 km
Source:
www.nationalparks.gov.uk
13. Our Policy & approach
Our Policy:
•Consulted on a draft policy from July – Sept 2013
•Policy approved in March 2014
•Set up an independently chaired Stakeholder
Advisory Group to help National Grid set the
priorities for spending the £500m
•Committed to substantial engagement with
organisations and communities
•Decisions to be based on a set of Guiding
Principles
Landscape and visual impact assessment
•Methodology developed for us by Prof. Carys
Swanwick and approved by the Stakeholder
Advisory Group
•Employed 2 landscape architect firms to assess &
rank all 571km of our lines in AONBs & National
Parks.
14. Guiding principles
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Result in greatest
landscape enhancement
benefits.
We will work with stakeholders to decide how to treat existing National Grid electricity infrastructure
to bring the most benefit from the Visual Impact Provision.
Candidate schemes will be selected with reference to the Guiding Principles below.
result in greatest
opportunities to conserve
and enhance natural
beauty, wildlife and
cultural heritage whilst
avoiding unacceptable
environmental impacts
result in greatest
opportunities to
encourage public
understanding and
enjoyment of the
protected landscapes,
including positive socio-
economic impacts;
Are technically feasible in
context of the wider
transmission system
Are economical and
efficient
As these principles may sometimes conflict with one another and each scheme is likely to
perform differently against them, we will need to carefully balance the choices we make, with the
help of stakeholders, against the Guiding Principles.
16. Progress
Stakeholder Advisory Group:
•Has met 5 times
•Has approved the landscape & visual impact
assessment methodology, and endorsed the
results – published in Nov 2014
•Initiated & approved the Landscape
Enhancement Initiative (£24m for locally derived
small scale projects)
•Has considered the process they will use to make
decisions at September meeting
Local stakeholders:
•Met groups of local ‘technical’ stakeholders in
each of the short-listed areas
•Public drop-ins in the short-listed areas
17. VIP short-list:
sections with the highest landscape
and visual impact
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Designation Substations Tower numbers
Tamar Valley
Landuph
to
Langage
004 - 0019
211 - 238
200 - 210
Peak District (East) 156-164
170 - 177
195 - 210
Brecon Beacons (Gill)
Pembroke
to
Walham
181-199
Snowdonia (Gill)
Pentir
to
Trawsfynydd
014-032
High Weald (LUC)
Dungeness
to
Ninfield
118 - 133
Dorset (LUC)
Chickerell
to
Mannington
025 - 039
New Forest (LUC)
Fawley
to
Mannington
058 - 068
North Wessex Downs
Bramley
to
Malksham
82 -104
Peak District (West)
Stalybridge
to
Thorpe March
Dorset (LUC)
Chickerell
to
Exeter
19. Process for major VIP schemes
1. Options appraisals being progressed for all
short-listed areas
2. Options appraisals will be tested with local
Stakeholder Reference Groups, and
revised if necessary
3. Preferred options presented to SAG on 8-9
September
4. SAG to prioritise and order areas to
progress to next stage
5. Prioritised areas progress as ‘normal’
projects – engineering feasibility studies,
voluntary EIA, planning applications etc.
6. SAG to review progress, and bring forward
‘next on the list’ areas if projects fall away.
21. About The Landscape Enhancement Initiative
• The LEI is a grant scheme that forms
part of VIP.
• LEI will fund local visual
improvement schemes to reduce the
visual impact of National Grid
electricity transmission lines in
AONBs and National Parks.
• This is in addition to the smaller
number of major engineering
schemes which will be progressed
as part of the VIP project.
25. Partnership approach
We are committed to working collaboratively
with Stakeholder Advisory Group members
With AONBs
With national parks
We are committed to transparency – engage, inform, explain
Together we need to manage expectations – what can be done
and what can’t. Timely communication – when you need it.
National Grid needs to be sure spending is allowed by Ofgem
VIP will only work with your support!
Thank you for asking us to attend today, it’s a pleasure to come and talk at the AONB Conference.
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Who are we and what do we do?
Our job is to connect people to the energy they use. We all rely on having energy at our finger tips: our society is built on it. From the warmth and light we rely on at home, and the power which keeps our factories and offices going, to the mobile communications and other technologies that are essential parts of our modern lifestyle.
National Grid owns and manages the grids to which many different energy sources are connected. In Britain we run systems that deliver gas and electricity across the entire country. In the North Eastern states of the US, we provide power directly to millions of customers. We hold a vital position at the centre of the energy system: we join everything up.
That puts us at the heart of one of the greatest challenges facing our society; the creation of new sustainable energy solutions for the future - and the development of an energy system that can underpin our economic prosperity in the 21st century.
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Non regs – property and business development
The situation at the start of the 21st century is very different from when the grids were first constructed in the early part of the 20th century. The challenge for society today is that the way we produce and consume energy is no longer sustainable:
It was only a few years ago that the big debates about climate change, about energy security and about affordability were seen as three separate issues, but now it‘s clear that they’re interconnected. We can’t respond to one without taking account of the others. They are different aspects of the same challenge: the creation of new sustainable energy solutions for the future.
On climate change: there is broad consensus about the need to reduce carbon emissions – and that has been captured in legislation. The Climate Change Act requires the UK to cut greenhouse emissions by 80% by 2050, from 1990 levels. - a stretching target. Meanwhile, concern about constraining the use of finite natural resources has been growing.
On ensuring the security of supply: the depletion of natural gas reserves has brought the issue home to people in the UK. In 2001 we imported only 1% of our gas, today we import 50% - and that is set to rise to 80% by 2020. So operating effectively in an inter-dependent, international energy market has become a priority.
The affordability of energy is a concern to everyone – from families to governments. Rising oil prices are in the headlines constantly. At the same time, the industry requires huge levels of investment – which have to be delivered in ways that consumers and the country can afford.
Our position at the centre of the industry puts us right at the heart of developing new solutions to meet that challenge.
It involves:
laying down new routes to bring additional power into the system – and increasing the capacity of overhead lines and underground cables
connecting to the new nuclear plants which will be built
extending the network to connect to where the offshore wind power will be generated
installing the capacity to import gas from all over the world and connect to electricity networks across Europe.
Building the energy infrastructure for the future means delivering major construction projects right across the country.
We know this is disruptive to the communities where they’re taking place.
We’ve always consulted widely with the public and now - because there are so many big projects in development – we consult more and earlier than ever before.
We put a lot of effort into the consultation process:
About 3-5 years before a new project starts, we hold consultation meetings with local communities to explain the possible route options, respond to queries and encourage people to send in feedback.
Taking everyone’s views into account, National Grid then decides on the preferred route option.
We ask for further feedback - then a proposal is put to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change who is responsible for the final decision.
Once a project has the go-ahead, we continue to work with local communities in the run-up to and during the construction phase; keeping traffic re-routing and other disruption to a minimum; working with schools and community groups; always ready to answer questions and provide information updates.