ELUK2026 Agenda

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 "Net zero is no longer a target. It's a delivery crisis."

The grid connection queue has tripled in seven months. Offshore wind is 20% behind target. The clean energy workforce is 200,000 people short. Industrial electricity prices remain four times those of the US. Critical mineral supply chains run through Beijing. And the political consensus that made net zero possible is fracturing in real time.

The solutions exist. The capital is available. What is missing is the courage, coordination and urgency to deliver — and the willingness to make hard choices about what gets built, who pays, and how fast.

ELUK 2026 convenes the decision-makers who hold the levers of delivery — government, regulators, utilities, infrastructure investors, heavy industry, data centres, nuclear developers and clean energy innovators — and demands commitments, not arguments.

The political reality of net zero affordability, the global race for clean energy investment, grid reform and the connections crisis, offshore wind's fragile foundations, and whether microgrids and distributed energy can bypass the gridlock. 

Fusion's £2.5 billion gamble, AI's grid-busting power demand, industrial decarbonisation or deindustrialisation, sovereign supply chains, critical mineral dependency, the 200,000-worker skills gap — and the ELUK 2026 Energy Leadership Declaration.