UK Power Networks Annual Review 2023/24

Delivering strong performance For customers, communities and employees

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As the UK’s biggest electricity distributor, we are focused on delivering strong performance and guarding against complacency, to ensure that the electricity infrastructure is in place to serve our customers safely, reliably, efficiently and sustainably.

Highlights of the year

As a leading infrastructure provider, we own and maintain electricity cables and lines across London, the East and South East of England and make sure power flows reliably, safely and securely to more than 19 million people living across our region. To continue to maintain our industry-leading position, it is essential we adapt to changing energy demands, exceed customer expectations, meet regulatory requirements and support the Net Zero transition.

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Ensuring safety

Ensuring safety

0.08

Total Recordable Injury Rate¹ (TRIR). We have seen a 84% reduction in our TRIR since we started as an independent business in 2010/11

Maintaining reliability

Maintaining reliability

99.99%

Network reliability

No.1

Our London network, LPN, remains the No.1 network for reliability, with the lowest Customer Interruptions and Customer Minutes Lost

Keeping customers satisfied

Keeping customers satisfied

No.1

Awarded the best Distribution Network Operator (DNO) in Ofgem’s Broad Measure of Customer Satisfaction

94%

Our best ever Customer Satisfaction Score of 94%

Delivering value for money

Delivering value for money

Lowest cost

DNO in 2023/24. This means our customers paid us an average monthly charge of £7.35 (25p per day) which is 22% less than the industry average

Innovation and the path towards Net Zero

Innovation and the path towards Net Zero

No. 1

UK Power Networks judged as the leading Distribution System Operator (DSO) by topping both Ofgem's DSO Stakeholder satisfaction and DSO Panel scores

  1. TRIR includes all workplace injuries that result in an individual being absent from work, receiving professional medical treatment.

How we are delivering strong performance

Our people are the driving force…
Our people are the driving force…

Our people are the driving force…

We attribute our success to our employees and their unwavering commitment to excellence.”

Basil Scarsella
Chief Executive Officer, UK Power Networks

This year we asked our stakeholders how they 
are helping us drive continuous improvement.

Contractor forum

Contractor forum

What the forum demonstrated to us was UK Power Networks’ number 1 priority is safety. The emphasis was on good leadership and ensuring that no job is so important…

Satellite technology

Satellite technology

The results of our trial using satellite technology have proved to be encouraging. We will be able to monitor tree growth and decaying trees...

Infrastructure for 12 new ultra-rapid charge points

Infrastructure for 12 new ultra-rapid charge points

I welcome this further investment by Extra, UK Power Networks and IONITY, which will improve EV charging provision on England’s motorway...

Creation of the distribution system operator (DSO)

Creation of the distribution system operator (DSO)

UK Power Networks’ full legal unbundling of the DSO and the appointment of an independent Supervisory Board is a radical shift that...

Power-ups – green power for free

Power-ups – green power for free

Power-ups are good for the grid and good for the planet – a win for everyone. This is yet another arrow in the quiver of ‘demand flexibility’...

Embodied carbon

Embodied carbon

The embodied carbon tool allows us to challenge the scope, design and material used in the delivery of our major projects, lowering carbon impact...

Great advice delivered locally

Great advice delivered locally

I don’t even know what to say I feel like crying right now thank you for your assistance… I’ve never got help like this before. I don’t really know...

Clean energy for Northumberland County Council

Clean energy for Northumberland County Council

I want to say a huge thank you to everyone involved in making it happen. It is a real example of using innovative technologies to move us...

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How we are supporting the future energy landscape

The decarbonisation of energy is both vital and urgent if Net Zero is to be achieved by 2050. UK Power Networks is determined to play a leading role in shaping how the future unfolds.