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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Emily Beament

‘Shovel-ready’ renewables prioritised as grid connections queue gets shake-up

New “shovel-ready” wind and solar farms will be prioritised to connect to the grid, operators said as they kickstarted moves to shake up the gridlocked connections queue.

The existing first-come, first-served approach to the grid connections queue, which operators say has led to unviable and speculative schemes holding up clean energy projects that are ready to plug in, has been scrapped.

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