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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Helena Horton Environment reporter

Government rules out underground cabling in National Grid upgrade

Farmland on Spalding Marsh, Lincolnshire: a line of pylons stretches into the distance across flat fields, against a grey sky
Farmland on Spalding Marsh, Lincolnshire – an area where there are proposals for more pylons. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer

The government has ruled out burying electricity cables underground as part of its energy strategy, which will involve the unrolling of hundreds of pylons across the British countryside, Ed Miliband’s clean energy adviser has said.

Chris Stark, the former leader of the Climate Change Committee, now heads the government’s “mission control” department for decarbonising the grid by boosting renewable energy and building connections across the country.

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