Things started to get slightly less hectic for the ISG in March. Since Christmas we had worked hard to provide substantial evidence to Ofgem in response to its Call for Evidence on NGN’s proposed GD3 Business Plan.
At our online meeting on 3 March we returned to GD2 performance and scrutinised NGN’s draft Sustainability Report for 2024.
This is a comprehensive review of NGN’s ‘Our People, Our Planet strategy’ and how far NGN has met its commitments in GD2.
We discussed NGN’s key policy priorities around hydrogen and heat in response to other policy positions and reports including the Committee on Climate Change and National Infrastructure Commission.
NGN shared with us the top-line findings of their most recent Customer Perceptions survey, and we plan to take a deepdive into these latest customer views and how they are being taken into account in preparing for GD3.
We shall revert to bimonthly in-person meetings, with the next two taking place in Leeds in April and June. We will be scrutinising how NGN is preparing for the next price control period and reviewing its performance at the end of Year 4 of the current 5-year business plan. In between we are undertaking our annual review of the ISG’s effectiveness criteria, we will be drafting our annual report, and we shall be engaging with Ofgem and GEMA as they develop their draft determinations on NGN’s Business Plan for GD3 (due to be published at the end June).
Jenny Saunders
Chair NGN ISG