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Consumers face £4.7bn bill for expansion of National Grid

Guardian; 05/03/2009

Hard-pressed energy consumers face a 'worryingly high' bill of £4.7bn to pay for the cost of hooking up wind farms and new nuclear power stations to the UK's electricity grid network over the next decade. The joint government, industry and regulatory Electricity Networks Strategy Group (ENSG) said the shake-up would allow Britain to move towards a low-carbon energy supply with the potential for 30% of electricity generated from renewables by 2020.

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Websites: http://www.guardian.co.uk

Countries: UK -

Organisation: National Grid

Subjects: Energy engineering, Management and commerce, Policy and Governance, Electricity generation, Electricity from nuclear fuel, Combined heat and power generation, Electricity transmission, Electricity distribution, Heat distribution, People and behaviour, Transportation, Transmission and Distribution, Electricity, Wind power, Power stations, Wind farms