Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 121993

Energy Intensive Industries: National Grid

Tabled: 18 March 2026

Answered: 27 March 2026

Question

Graham Leadbitter

Scottish National Party — Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that large electricity users such as data centres contribute to system investment and operation through flexibility and demand management when co

Answer

Michael Shanks

The Government, NESO and Ofgem have worked together with industry to identify specific actions to support an increase in large non-domestic consumer-led flexibility, setting those actions out in the Clean Flexibility Roadmap, published in 2025. Data centr...

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