Why do we engage with industry, suppliers and partners?

We can create opportunities for mutual learning, helping to develop industry best practice. Collaboration allows the industry, suppliers and partners to create mutually beneficial solutions to challenges and to innovate more effectively than working in siloes.

…Which also unlocks wider societal benefits: Engaging will help industry, our suppliers and partners to overcome issues and challenges, bring value for money for bill payers, create and cultivate economies of scale and ensure efficiency across the electricity supply chain.

Our commitments

We openly communicate risks and challenges, working together to mitigate them:

We provide our stakeholders with timely, relevant, clear, and concise information, particularly around any emerging risks and challenges that may affect our collective operations. When these challenges emerge,

we contact affected stakeholders quickly, provide regular updates and work collectively to resolve and mitigate issues.

We collaborate closely with industry, suppliers and partners on aligned interests:

We create opportunities to share knowledge to find collective and mutually beneficial solutions to industry problems, challenges and opportunities. We continually work with industry and supply chain and local planning to help to achieve mutual benefits in infrastructure projects.

We advocate for change in the energy industry: We work with our supply chain and the wider industry to reach shared positions, tackle challenges and influence policy for mutual benefit.

We intend to make our commitments real, through our: 

Knowledge sharing forums:
We create and attend formal industry knowledge-sharing sessions at the national, regional, and local level.

Relationship owners and regular interactions:
We allocate a dedicated contact for each industry stakeholder who organises regular in-person or virtual meetings and responds to queries and concerns promptly. We have communication with other industry providers such as infrastructure and transport throughout our planning process.

Direct communications channels:
We provide regular updates through established channels and have direct contact when emergency faults or issues arise.

Industry forums:
We are part of key industry forums and host industry events which allow us to shape the future of the industry, share best practice, and ensure stakeholders concerns are at the forefront of the changes and improvements that we advocate for.

Partnership approach:
One example of our partnership approach is how we collaborated with our supply chain to create and develop the Accelerated Strategic Transmission Investment (ASTI) Delivery Charter. This commits all those working on and supporting the delivery of the Pathway to 2030 programme to key working principles which align our goals and commitments.

What success looks like

We would like industry, suppliers and partners to:

Our ask of industry, suppliers and partners is to:
  • Understand the current and emerging trends and challenges we face and recognise the mutual benefits of working together to create solutions. 

  • Feel that we engage effectively, providing regular, clear, concise, and timely updates.
  • Openly and honestly share their feedback and concerns.