See if the 10 actions in Britain’s £181 billion electricity networks plan are on time, with evidence you can check for each.
The Energy Networks Association (ENA) and BEAMA, which speak for the network companies and their equipment makers, published the Electricity Networks Sector Growth Plan in October 2026. It puts investment in Great Britain’s electricity networks at up to £181 billion by 2035, adding £58 billion to the UK economy in gross value added (the value of the goods and services produced) and supporting more than 210,000 jobs. Follow each action below against the date the plan set, so you can see which dates are holding and check the evidence behind every line.
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Last updated 30 October 2026
Who has to report on the plan’s progress, and when you can expect the first yearly update (September 2027)
ENA and BEAMA set up the Electricity Networks Growth Partnership to run the plan and report on it every year. Start with these two rows. Every row below depends on this body.
Where each of the 10 actions stands against its deadline, and the evidence you can check
Read each row from left to right. It starts with the plan’s own words and the date it set, then shows what has happened since 20 October 2026 and the Wire items behind it.
What the five status labels tell you, and when we change a status
We take each commitment from the main report that ENA and BEAMA published in October 2026, in the plan’s own words and with its page number. Where the report gives no date, we use the action timetable on networksgrowthplan.com and flag the row so you know. “Nothing published yet” means we have found no public document on that milestone as of the date at the top of the page.
Expect a status to change only when a document is published or a date passes. We update this page the same day it happens.
Watch Slipped most closely. When a date passes with nothing published, the row turns to Slipped on its own. It stays that way until the work appears, when we add the date it landed.
- DoneThe milestone has been delivered, and we link the document.
- On trackThe date is still ahead, and there is published evidence that the work has started.
- DueThe date or window has arrived, and nothing has been published yet.
- SlippedThe date has passed with nothing published.
- Not yet dueThe date is still ahead, and nothing has been published yet.
Browse every item behind these rows in The Wire archive. For more on the ED3 and workforce rows, read Gap 05 on what RIIO-ED3 asks of the local networks and Gap 26 on the UK infrastructure skills gap.
See the skills gap sector by sector on The People Problem, and follow the grid build-out on our Energy & Grid page.
