Our commitments to 2026
Decarbonised Energy
We will develop integrated plans for a decarbonised, efficient and flexible energy system fit for the future.
The main NESO deliverables under this priority are the Centralised Strategic Network Plan, the Regional Energy Strategic Plans, the Spatial Strategic Energy Plan and a flexibility strategy.
Our commitments
The technical detail of these commitments can be found in the 'Introducing NESO’ appendix.
Our existing commitments:
We will provide a range of different, credible pathways to decarbonise our energy system by 2050
We will develop our Data & Analytics platform and capabilities to enable high quality insights, advanced analytics and AI
We will drive commonality and standardisation, and interoperability across network planning data
Our new commitments:
We will work with government and customers to ensure security of supply through the 2020s and into the 2030s
We will embed our new Resilience and Emergency Management roles to take a whole system perspective on system resilience and emergency response preparedness for Great Britain
We will embed our new strategic planning roles in Centralised Strategic Network Planning (CSNP) along with further development of our new roles in Strategic Spatial Energy Planning (SSEP) and Regional Energy Strategic Planning (RESP)
We will deliver the first NESO-led Gas Network Development Plan as part of CSNP
We will engage with a broad range of customers so they can understand, input into plans and become advocates
We will build a Geospatial Platform to enable location intelligence, eco-system and spatial modelling
We will provide impartial advice, analysis and information to the government and Ofgem upon request, across the whole energy value chain, including generation, transmission and consumption of energy
We will formally take on whole energy market strategy roles and drive action on gas market strategy
We will co-create a flexibility strategy, helping unlock distributed flexibility potential and creating coherent markets