£54bn needed to upgrade grid for offshore wind expansion

Up to £54bn will have to be invested in new power grid infrastructure to deliver the government’s target to increase offshore wind generation capacity to 50GW by 2030.
The vast increase in investment in the power grid has been set out by National Grid’s energy system operator (ESO) in its Holistic Network Design report.
The report compiled with help from Atkins and WSP sets out the scale of the challenge the industry faces over the next eight years to meet the planned ramping u