We set out to give our stakeholders the opportunity to see the impact of their engagement over the year, the progress we’ve made on our commitments, and to understand objective observations from CEG. We also wanted to create an opportunity to recheck our direction and focus with our stakeholders, giving us the confidence that our strategic direction and plans are still in line with their thinking.
89.8%
of respondents either agreed or strongly agreed that NGN is focusing on the right strategic priorities.
Communities and Social Obligation
You widely praised our approach to communities and social obligations, particularly liking the use of localised partner networks to roll out support. You were impressed at the level of ambition shown but are unsure whether even NGNs efforts would be enough for the expected winter crisis, and you highlighted missing areas such as closer partnerships with schools around fuel poverty and embedding the sustainability agenda into efforts to tackle the fuel crisis.
Net Zero/Whole Systems
84.2% agreed that you were in favour of our actions to support the decarbonisation of the network and argued that we should be pursuing labour market engagement, employee upskilling, and financing decommissioning with more urgency.
Business resilience: People
77.1% agreed that you supported NGNs approach to ensure inclusion and diversity in the workplace. You largely supported efforts across inclusion, sector challenges and social mobility and you said you thought more could be done to ensure gender inclusivity across the workforce. You suggested that we needed to focus more on discussing career opportunities with schools, in order to fill skills gap which may be exacerbated by the industry’s ageing workforce.