The Yorkshire Green Energy Enablement (GREEN) project is a proposal by National Grid Electricity Transmission to upgrade and reinforce the high-voltage power network, so that more low-carbon energy can get to homes and businesses in Yorkshire and further afield.
The Yorkshire GREEN project proposes new infrastructure including substations, overhead lines, underground cables and cable sealing end compounds (where underground cables meet overhead lines). It would also include work to upgrade the existing transmission system, including some installation of new equipment at existing sites.
Our public consultation, which ran between Thursday 28 October and Thursday 9 December 2021, is now closed to the public. During this statutory consultation, we held four in-person consultation events where you were able to speak with the Project team, ask questions and provide feedback. We also held seven online question and answer (Q&A) sessions throughout the consultation period where you were able to view our proposals and ask questions. A recording of our webinar presentation is available to view on our consultation events page.
Please note, if you have been written to with regard to our targeted localised consultation or our additional landowner consultation, please view the web pages below.
We held our first round of consultation in spring 2021 where we asked for your feedback on our early stage proposals. This feedback, together with information from further environmental and technical work, has helped inform our more detailed Project design that we presented during our statutory consultation.
You can read about the results of our non-statutory consultation in our Non-statutory Consultation Report, which can be found below. You can also find a short ‘You said, we did’ document, which sets out some of the points you raised in the consultation feedback and the actions we are taking in response.
While our existing high-voltage electricity network in Yorkshire has been sufficient until today, it doesn’t have the capacity to transport all the new low-carbon energy that we expect to come on line over the next 10 years while operating reliably and securely to the standards required.
We need to reinforce the region’s electricity network to address this and Yorkshire GREEN will strengthen the network here. It will play a vital role in delivering electricity efficiently, reliably, and safely and will support the UK’s move to reduce carbon emissions.
In Great Britain, we are in the middle of a transformation, with the energy we use increasingly coming from cleaner, greener sources. In 2019 – the same year that Parliament committed to the UK reaching a target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 - most of our electricity came from low carbon sources for the first time since the industrial revolution. National Grid is at the heart of that energy transformation – investing around £1.3bn each year to adapt and develop our transmission network to connect new sources of low carbon and green energy to the homes and businesses of our customers.
While it's vital that more of the energy we use comes from low carbon and renewable sources, both National Grid and the Government recognise it's also important to keep the impact as low as possible on bills, people, communities and our natural environment. National Grid is committed to finding the right balance between these factors to ensure our projects have a sustainable, positive impact.
Great Britain already has 8.5 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy in operation, and another 1.9GW under construction. The Government’s Energy White Paper outlines a plan to increase energy from offshore wind to 40GW by 2030 – enough to power every home in the UK.
We are currently gathering and analysing all of the feedback received during our statutory consultation and will take this into consideration as we continue to refine the Project design. Feedback will be reported and responded to in a Consultation Report, which will be published when we submit our application for a Development Consent Order (DCO) in winter 2022/23.
If you would like any further information, or would like to speak to a member of the project team, please email: [email protected] or call us on 0800 029 4359.
You can continue to view our consultation documents and materials to help you learn more about the Yorkshire GREEN Project. This includes our Statutory Consultation Plans (showing our proposals, our full Preliminary Environmental Information Report (including a non-technical summary) and four photo viewpoints from across the consultation zone.
You can also view our project background documents and previous materials published during our non-statutory consultation in March and April 2021.
Documents relating to the Yorkshire GREEN statutory consultation include:
Yorkshire GREEN Statutory Consultation Feedback Questionnaire |
Detailed plans for our proposals for the Yorkshire GREEN project are listed below
Yorkshire GREEN - Guide to interacting with our consultation plans |
The documents that make up the Preliminary Environmental Impact Report (PEIR), including a Non Technical Summary, appendices and figures, for the Yorkshire GREEN project can be found below:
The below section includes photo viewpoints from four locations across the consultation zone.
Documents relating to the Yorkshire GREEN non-statutory consultation include:
If you are a local landowner, and you have any queries with regard to the Yorkshire GREEN project, please contact our lands team, or by phoning 0845 437 7357, providing your details.
To request further documents relating to the Yorkshire GREEN project, including the Yorkshire GREEN Consultation Strategy, the Strategic Proposal (2019), the Strategic Proposal Back Check and Review (2020), the Strategic Proposal Back Check and Review Addendum Report (2021), the Project Needs Case (2020) and the Project Needs Case (2021), please email [email protected] or Freephone 0800 029 4359.
We have produced the following documents for the purposes of this statutory consultation, to learn more about the Project, and provide feedback. We recommend that you view these documents before you provide your feedback.
Consultation material | Description |
Preliminary Environmental Information Report (PEIR) | A document which is the written output of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) undertaken to date for Yorkshire GREEN. This contains the preliminary findings of our environmental surveys and a summary of the Project’s likely significant effects identified to date. This report comprises a number of chapters, figures and appendices. |
PEIR non-technical summary | A non-technical version of our full PEIR. |
Consultation Plans | Our more detailed maps and plans for each section (A-F). |
Statutory Consultation Booklet | A document providing more detail on our proposals for statutory consultation, including information on our updated proposals, what we’re consulting on and how you can get involved. |
Non-statutory Consultation Report | A document presenting the results of the non-statutory consultation in March and April 2021. We have analysed all feedback received during this consultation and have provided a response to each comment. |
‘You said, We Did’ summary of responses | A document summarising the key themes from the non-statutory consultation and what we have done in response to this feedback. |
Photomontages | Visualisations from key surrounding viewpoints prepared for the Project. |
Find out more information about the Yorkshire GREEN project and proposals for the north west of York, Tadcaster, Monk Fryston and additional works.
Find out why the Yorkshire GREEN project is needed and the move towards net zero.
Learn more about National Grid’s options appraisal process for the Yorkshire GREEN project.
Answers to questions we’re often asked about the Yorkshire GREEN project.
Our statutory consultation, which ran between Thursday 28 October and Thursday 9 December 2021, is now closed to the public.
Find our more about our ongoing targeted localised consultation.
View more information about our ongoing additional landowner consultation.
Get in touch with the Yorkshire GREEN project team.