Mr. Jim Gannon:

There are a couple of things. We need to embed demand response. Whether that is across smart meters, with small and medium enterprise through smart meters, or with larger industrial consumers, for all, it will increase the use of the renewable electricity we have and will take advantage of times when we have significant supply. That will become ever more important as we progress towards 2030. It will reduce costs for all if we can increase and embed demand-side response as part of our transition and it will support security of supply. That is something that is ahead of us. It is something that is being implemented right now. If we can embed it in people's natural lives and make it easy for them to do, it will have a significant impact.

I repeat a point I made earlier. Infrastructural delivery in this country is challenging. Europe has signalled that member states should consider decarbonisation infrastructure and the grid supporting it as being in the overriding public interest. That is a very clear signal from Europe and is one we need to consider. Given the type of transition we are talking about, where the electricity grid will be a meshed network, not just with a number of point sources going dendritically out to users but something that is far more interactive and comes from more dispersed and diverse types of generation capacity, it is essential we are able to progress infrastructure in a more efficient way in this country while not taking away those fundamental rights around consultation awareness among our communities and other stakeholders. It is essential that is tackled and it is there for us right now and signalled from Europe.