What to expect from the UK Government’s 10-Year Infrastructure Strategy

In June 2025, the UK Government plans to publish it’s 10-Year Infrastructure Strategy, alongside a multi-year spending review. Together, these publications will outline the framework they plan to use to help address the country’s infrastructure needs. Achieving net zero emissions is one of several key priorities that the strategy will focus on.

The draft strategy is currently in consultation, which means it’s being reviewed with key stakeholders – including the construction sector, major investors, and industry players like Centrica. Their feedback will help to refine the strategy and ensure it aligns with the needs of businesses. 

Let’s review how the 10-Year Infrastructure Strategy could impact net zero plans, and how you power your business.

What’s the strategy for?

The strategy is built around three central objectives:

• Enabling Growth: Driving regional productivity improvements and reducing disparities, by investing in targeted infrastructure improvements that will increase productivity and support job creation.
• Delivering the Clean Energy Superpower Mission: Prioritising clean power by 2030 and accelerating the path to net zero by 2050. The strategy will include significant investments in renewable energy infrastructure, energy storage systems, and grid infrastructure.
• Ensuring Social Infrastructure Supports Public Services: Enhancing facilities such as hospitals, schools, housing, and prisons to meet public needs.

Four key guiding principles will underpin the strategy:

• Mission-Oriented Prioritisation: Aligning infrastructure investments with the government’s five key missions, including clean energy and growth.
• Long-Term Confidence: Providing stability and transparency to encourage private sector investment.
• Addressing Crosscutting Challenges: Tackling interdependencies between sectors such as energy, public services and housing.
• Deliverability and Affordability: Ensuring projects are feasible and provide value for money.

How will business energy be impacted?

The strategy will prioritise investment in the energy transition. It will promote investment in renewable generation, grid enhancements and electrification of key sectors, such as transportation and heating. Grid delays are currently holding back decarbonisation, with some large generation assets facing a 14-year wait to connect to the grid. This strategy aims to improve businesses access to new grid connections.

What’s more, the strategy will also include a long-term infrastructure pipeline, detailing upcoming infrastructure projects, timelines and funding commitments. This is designed to give businesses a clear sense of future priorities – improving certainty and enabling better resource planning. The pipeline aims to balance new infrastructure development with the maintenance, renewal, and replacement of existing assets to ensure long-term sustainability.

What commitments are being made to ensure the strategy is turned into action?

The strategy will establish a new institutional framework, which will be tasked with supporting project financing, ensuring accountability, and driving efficient delivery of infrastructure projects.

A new approach to infrastructure-related regulation will be outlined to support private investment and ensure project deliverability. This includes streamlining approval processes, enhancing transparency in regulatory frameworks, and ensuring that private sector participation aligns with public interest goals.

The strategy will also seek to review the country’s approach to planning. The proposal is that a place-based approach is taken. This means that areas of the country would be identified which have the greatest potential for economic growth, and infrastructure projects will be tailored accordingly to maximise investment impact and address specific regional challenges.