Nigel Farage slams pylons plans as ‘absolute disaster’ (Image: Getty)
Nigel Farage has slammed plans for a 114-mile network of electricity pylons across swathes of the countryside as “an absolute disaster”.
The Reform UK leader hit out at National Grid’s plans to transport green energy from Norwich to Tilbury.
Referring to the plans as an “absolute disaster”, he added: “The whole thing is a nonsense, I think we are despoiling our landscapes and seascapes for a form of energy that is utterly unreliable.”
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National Grid said the new line of pylons was the only viable way to carry electricity from new wind farms off the east coast that were coming online in 2030.
Green co-leader Adrian Ramsay is among several MPs opposing the plans for the 50m-tall electricity structures across East Anglia.
Some people living along the route have said it would have a huge impact on the landscape.
There are calls for the new power lines to be built underground or at sea.
Tom McGarry, from National Grid, said: “If it was cheaper and quicker to deliver it off-shore, then that’s what we would be proposing, but it is not. We have to deliver this by 2030.”
A spokesman for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) said: “Securing Britain’s clean energy future will require improving infrastructure in a cost-effective way to get renewable electricity on the grid.”
“Without this infrastructure, we will never deliver clean power for the British people.
“It is important we take people with us and are considering ways to ensure communities who live near new clean energy infrastructure can see the benefits of this.”