No Transition Without Transmission: Ryan Macdonald on the UK's Grid Challenge

As the UK undertakes its largest electricity network upgrade in a generation, the challenge is no longer defining the ambition for the energy transition, but delivering the infrastructure needed to make it happen.

AtkinsRéalis' Ryan Macdonald, Market Director for Power, Renewables and Industrial, sits down on the Inside Energy podcast with Energy Industries Council (EIC) CEO Stuart Broadley to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the UK's grid build-out.

Drawing on his experience helping clients deliver major energy, transmission and industrial infrastructure programmes, Ryan explores why grid infrastructure has become the critical enabler of economic growth, energy security and decarbonisation. The discussion covers the growing demands being placed on the network by electrification and industrial decarbonisation, as well as the investment, skills and supply chain challenges that must be overcome to deliver projects at the pace and scale required.

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