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Why is Westminster paying Amazon and Google to fix network constraints?

Time to rethink Scotland's heatpump rollout, or regional pricing instead?

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Ben
May 21, 2026
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Can the UK avoid (or at least defer) a meaningful slice of the £70–80bn of network reinforcement spend that grid companies are lining up — by targeting heat-pump rollout to the parts of the country where there’s both surplus electricity and high heat demand?

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