Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking through the Energy Resilience Strategy to mitigate risks to national grid stability.

Maintaining the stability and operability of Great Britain’s electricity system is the responsibility of the independent National Energy System Operator (NESO), working with network companies through regulated market arrangements.

The Government works closely with NESO to support the effective delivery of these responsibilities and NESO has a range of tools at its disposal to keep the electricity system in balance and maintain system stability.

The Energy Resilience Strategy will set out the Government’s strategic priorities for a resilient energy system, now and in the future, and how the Government will work with industry, the regulator and wider society to deliver that. Accordingly, the Government is working closely with NESO to develop and deliver the priorities to be set out in this strategy.