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Richard Gwilliam

Richard Gwilliam

Sep 8, 2026

1:05
First of all, it'd be great to get your thoughts on how you see the expected change in UK electricity demand after what's been quite a stable period, what you see as the key drivers and what this means for the system as a whole.
1:20
You're right to sort of flag this change that we've gone through because For the last two decades, we haven't really seen a huge amount of growth in electricity demand.
1:30
It's been really stable or at times has fallen.
1:33
I think across the country, we've seen relatively large levels of deindustrialization, increased in energy efficiency, And then, you know, electrical appliances have also become more efficient.
1:46
And if I think back to my time in the sector, I've been with Drax now for coming up eight years, but I think back to 2010, I worked at National Grid.
1:55
And at that point, you know, my job was to look at how we rewire the country on the anticipation that we were going to electrify the economy.
2:04
It feels like that's something we've been talking about for a very long time.

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7:30
On the demand point, how supportive do you think the UK government is to the evolution of that system? What have they done so far in supporting that sort of AI data centre deployment?

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