Member

The purpose of Clause 26 is to recognise households that will live close to the new electricity transmission infrastructure that we need to achieve the clean power by 2030 mission. Around twice as much of the new transmission infrastructure network will be required by 2030 as has been constructed over the past decade. That significant increase in the pace requires recognition of households that will live close to that new infrastructure. Extending the scheme to all households that are next to infrastructure would be moving away from that purpose. There would also be substantial additional cost in extending the scheme to existing infrastructure. There are many thousands of miles of transmission infrastructure across Great Britain. Granting an electricity bill discount to every nearby household would vastly inflate the cost of the scheme and delay the current rollout plans due to the increased administration challenges in identifying the additional households.