National Grid says it needs infrastructure to carry electricity from offshore wind farms.
She said the National Grid should not be "desecrating unspoilt countryside" at Friston for "power needed in London".Asher Minns, executive director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, said there is still time to cut carbon emissionsSeparate to the proposed substation at Friston, National Grid plans to build a new line of pylons, more than a hundred miles long through Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, in a project known as .
Regardless of whether the cables are put on land or carried down to south Essex and London via an offshore route, Asher Minns, executive director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, said: "There is still everything to play for and it's not too late either, but we have to speed up work.
"There are many windfarms in the pipeline and I would like to be involved in the construction of the next one."Rachel Bunn, of East Suffolk College, is also a director of the energy industry group EEEGR She said with any developments there was a "balancing act" between the need for the infrastructure and the concerns of communities.A spokesperson for National Grid said: "The country's electricity transmission network needs a number of major reinforcements to meet the government's net zero ambitions to connect large volumes of wind and nuclear generation.
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