Almost 100 years ago, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin promised the British people a land of cheap and abundant electricity. The Electricity Supply Act that followed established a ‘National Gridiron' project that connected 122 power stations across the country. Despite civil disobedience and poet laureate John Betjeman decrying the ‘march of the iron monsters', this transformative infrastructure project was delivered on time and on budget.

Today, we face a similarly momentous challenge. To deliver on the Government's clean energy superpower mission, we need to build around five times the infrastructure over the next seven years as we built in the previous three decades. We need to double onshore wind, triple solar power and quadruple offshore wind capacity.