Member

To some extent, this is where the noble Earl, Lord Russell, is trying to go with speeding up the connections, but I am concerned about two aspects of the approach that he is suggesting. I understand what he says about local energy grids, but there are significant parts of the country where the energy being generated is not intended for any use near that particular part of the country, whether it is in parts of Scotland or parts of coastal Britain. It is intended to be transmitted—I am not entirely sure where, and perhaps I need to educate myself further on Liberal Democrat policy and what exactly the local energy grids are—but I would ask on whom the costs fall.