Community benefit survey May 2025

Communities should benefit from hosting new electricity transmission infrastructure. To help us deliver community benefit programmes that work for your area, we are keen to hear your views. We want to understand what is important to you, and where community benefit funds could deliver long-lasting benefits, including through community grant schemes and investment in community groups or via regional partnerships.

The way we deliver community benefit funding is informed by government guidance published in March 2025. This sets out the types of infrastructure projects that should deliver community benefit funds, and the level of funding that should be made available. This is based on:

• £530,000 for new substations, converter stations and switching stations
• £200,000 per kilometre of new overhead line*

The responses to this survey will help us understand the priorities of the local community. It will form part of a series of engagement with communities and stakeholders as we develop our plans for community benefit associated with EGL 3 and EGL 4.

This form is specifically intended to understand views on community benefits. Please do not use this form to provide feedback on EGL 3 and EGL 4 or any other National Grid project proposals.

We are not seeking views on the government’s emerging proposals for energy bill discounts. The legislation that government is proposing to introduce energy bill discounts is not yet in place. This consultation is therefore only focussing on community funds in line with the current guidance.

* This includes changes to some existing network infrastructure, such as uprating existing overhead power cables and extensions to existing substations as defined within the government guidance.