Britain’s National Energy System Operator (NESO) will officially launch today, taking up the task of overseeing the shift to more secure, affordable, and fully decarbonised energy system for homes and businesses in what it has been hailed as a “pivotal moment” for the nation’s net zero transition.

The creation of NESO has seen the former National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) nationalised and handed additional responsibilities in several other key areas, including oversight of the national gas heating grid, as the government looks to bring the system operator roles together in one public body.

The move, which was first announced by the UK government and Ofgem in 2022, is aimed at ensuring a “holistic, whole systems approach” to transforming Britain’s energy system on the pathway to a clean power grid by 2030 and a net zero emissions economy by 2050. The new government finalised the move last month, after agreeing

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