More than half of clean energy schemes needed for Labour’s 2030 target offered grid connection

Labour came to power with a promise to double the UK’s onshore wind, triple its solar power and quadruple its offshore wind capacity. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

More than half the renewable energy projects needed to meet the government’s clean power targets by 2030 are now able to plug into the electricity grid after years of delay, according to the system operator.

The National Energy System Operator (Neso) has offered more than 700 clean energy projects in Great Britain a grid connection date since the start of the year, after a two-year process to unblock a bottleneck that threatened to delay projects into the 2030s.